Overview
After diagnosis reveals you have cancer, your next step should be to schedule chemotherapy with your doctor. What chemotherapy does for your body is to kill the rapidly dividing cells inside. This means the drugs may also affect the body’s own cells, which might be the reason for some of the side effects associated with chemotherapy.
FOLFOX regimen is one of the commonest chemotherapy treatments for cancer. It is a combination of drugs used in chemotherapy treatment of colorectal cancer. FOLFOX is sometimes referred to as Oxaliplatin de Gramont. It is composed of 3 drugs, namely: Folinic acid (leucovorin), Fluorouracil (5-FU), and Oxaliplatin (Eloxatin). The name is derived from parts of the names of its constituents joined together. [1]
