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5FU Infusion
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https://ruesch.georgetown.edu/rueschr... • 5-FU is a chemotherapy drug that is administered in two ways; either through a mediport which can be done at home or you can get 5-FU with bolus using an IV. Bolus is less common and may have additional side effects. • Transcript: • 5-FU is one of our most important drugs. It is typically given IV. Yes, there is an oral form called Xeloda capecitabine, but IV there are really two ways of giving it. The standard way, you need something called a mediport and you go to the doctor's office, they put a special needle into the mediport, they give you some medicines there in the office, but then you go home with a little battery-powered pump that runs for 46 hours. At the end of the 46 hours you either go back to your doctor's office or a nurse will come to your home, disconnect this, pull the needle out, and then you have 12 days off. When you give FOLFOX or FOLFIRI, that's the way the 5-FU is given, this two-day infusion. And so you do want to get trained in how to do that. • The other major way to give 5-FU is called bolus, which means you just go to the office, they put an IV in, they give you a squirt of the medicine, and then you go home, sometimes come back the next week. That's commonly given 20 years ago, but we don't use it as much now because of side effects. It's a little less effective and a little more side effects. So most of the time it's either this pump kind of 5-FU or the pill version.
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