Are combination drugs more effective compared to single drug chemotherapy?
Various drugs are used for the treatment of cancer. Single drug chemotherapy i.e. only one drug is used for treating cancer and sometimes more than one drug is used to treat cancer, depending up the kind of cancer and the stage of cancer these drugs are used. The use of combinations drugs has shown better results than the use of single drug. To treat cancer of head and neck the use of DCF chemotherapy i.e. use of a combination of three drugs cisplatin, docetaxel and fluorouracil (5-FU). Previously DCF chemotherapy used only two drugs in combination i.e. cisplatin along with docetaxel or docetaxel along with fluorouracil (5-FU). DCF mode of treatment for head and neck cancer is a neo-adjuvant kind of chemotherapy which can be used in advanced stages also. Three cycles make up this treatment which consists of use of docetaxel drug on the 1st day and the use of 5-FU and cisplatin from day 1 to day 4. This mode of treatment is used with a gap of three weeks. It has been noticed that radiot
