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CMF (cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil)
If you have CMF, you'll have a total of six cycles of treatment. Each cycle lasts 14 days and is repeated every 4 weeks. So that's a total of six months of treatment.
On days 1 and 8 of each cycle you'll have an injection of methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil (also called 5-FU) at the out-patient clinic. You can have an injection of cyclophosphamide at the same time, or you can take a cyclophosphamide tablet each day for the first 14 days of each cycle.
To find out more about this treatment, try the CancerBACUP website.
Main side effects
- Nausea
- Tiredness
- Mouth ulcers
- Infections
- Diarrhoea
- Some hair loss
- Loss of fertility
To find out more about this treatment, try the CancerBACUP website.
Also within "Treatment"
- Follow up
- Surgery
- Radiotherapy
- Drug therapy
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- Chemotherapy
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- CMF (cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil)
- FEC (5-fluorouracil, epirubicin, cyclophosphamide)
- AC (doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide)
- Epi-CMF (epirubicin followed by CMF)
- TAC (docetaxel, doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide)
- New ways of giving chemotherapy
- Dealing with chemotherapy side effects
- Hormone treatment
- Antibody treatments
- Complementary therapies
