How many treatment drugs are there?

Becky58

My dad was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer with mets to the liver. He has been on a couple different drugs...I know there is Avastin, Oxaplatin(Eloxatin), Erbitux(which I was told is not a chemo drug but used to help shrink tumors),
5-FU(Zeloda, Xeloda pill which equals the infusion form of 5-FU.
Do I have this much correct? What other drugs are there that I do not have listed?
Thanks for helping me understand this.
Becky

HowardJ

Hi Becky,

There are a number of different combinations of drugs used to treat colon ca. See this link from NCI for a good overview--

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/colon-and-rectal (copy and paste into Address bar)

Howard