Ovarian cancer treatment - The first thing that you need to do if you’re facing ovarian cancer is surgery which means removing all the infected tissue that your doctor can remove without putting your life in danger. After surgery most of the women will try chemotherapy which will block the cancer to coming back or to destroy all the cancerous cells that the doctor couldn’t remove during surgery.



What is exactly the chemotherapy? Chemotherapy is a combination of medicines used at once to kill all the cancer cells. Practically chemotherapy kills all the new growing cells even if they are normal ones or even if they are cancer. The sad part is that an adult can reproduce rapidly other cells except for the bone marrow or hair and that’s why at some people chemotherapy doesn’t work and the cancer could return.

Most of the times the side effects are very often and very severe and could be for example hair loss, nausea, weight loss, vomiting, feeling very tired, anemia, lost of appetite and so one. Chemotherapy in most of the cases are given into the vein but they are other alternatives like oral  but a newer method was recently discovered that for the women with ovarian cancer could take in chemotherapy directly into the abdominal area like a sort of enema. This kind of method is also called as intraperitoneal and for short IP chemotherapy.

Usually chemotherapy is given in sort of amounts of doses over o period of time in different sessions. These sessions are established because over the side effects that you are suffering after the chemotherapy, you have to let your body to recover. In this time patients are always being closely monitored for other side effect from what doctor expected.

There are different methods that you could take the chemotherapy. Some women took the chemotherapy after they have had surgery and they will take chemotherapy for extra percussion but in some cases like a very extensive cancer is recommended to do the chemotherapy first. It is said that the best method is to do the surgery first because they are a lot of chances that the doctors could remove all the infected tissues and you will not need the chemotherapy afterwards. But they are some women that couldn’t tolerate the risk of a surgery and the process to recover and they choose to shrink the tumor with the chemotherapy first and afterwards the surgery.

Chemotherapy it is known to be just like a shake of different medicines and agents. For the treatment of ovarian cancer among other agents that are founded in the mix the most important and commonly used is a agent called paclitaxel and carboplatin or cisplatin.

Studies show that these agents are known to be the most effective in preventing of the return of the cancer and can improve considerably the chance that a woman could recover after cancer. The doctors usually mix the paclitaxel with carboplatin for the women who are suffering from the ovarian cancer but studies show that the mix of paclitaxel with the cisplatin is as effective as the first one and it has fewer side effects.