If your doctor wants you to have chemo, it means something can be done to try to control, or maybe even cure, your cancer.

All types of cancer have one thing in common: they involve abnormal cells growing out of control. Otherwise, everyone's cancer is different. So is the chemotherapy that is given.

In some cases, the best choice of doses and schedules for giving each drug are relatively clear, and most oncologists would recommend the same treatment. In other cases, less may be known about the single best way to treat people with certain types and stages of cancer. In these situations different cancer doctors might choose different drug combinations with different schedules.     

When choosing which drugs to use for a chemotherapy regimen consider the following factors:

• Cancer type
• The stage of the cancer (how far it has spread)
• The patient's age
• The patient's health, including other serious health problems (such as heart, liver, or kidney diseases)
• Other types of anti-cancer treatments given in the past
• Side effects
• Drug interactions
• Information published in medical journals and textbooks describing the outcomes of similar patients treated with chemotherapy.

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