Antimetabolites are similar to nucleotides that compose dna and rna.

Chemotherapie 5 fu pumpe. An inner membrane that holds the chemotherapy and an outer cover. 4 they can also cost less… a clinic that has an average of 20 medicare patients per month can potentially save over $24k by using homepump* vs. For day 1 of each cycle, up to 4 hours is spent at the infusion center

When the pump is empty, use the following steps to disconnect your pump and flush your port. It is used to treat many types of cancer. It belongs to a category of chemotherapy known as anti metabolites.

If you feel that it has chemotherapy on it, wipe it off with a damp, soapy cloth. I had fu 5 delivered with a pump at 1&1/4 mltr @hr 24/7 for five weeks while i was concurrently getting radiation 5 times a week. To reflect the reality in a clinic setting that someone would have to weigh the pump.

Beginning of the 5th week we repeated this process with 20% less mitomycin due to the low blood count. Ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions. Somehow the fluorouacil makes the cancer cells more susceptible to the radiation's destroying beams.

Smartez ® chemotherapy elastomeric infusion pumps are approved for use with chemotherapy medications. The weight of the pump empty is approximately 83.4g. The 5fu that goes home in the pump is hooked up and billed with 96416.

This drug has demonstrated differing levels of activity dependent on the schedule of administration in experimental and clinical models. This is inclusive of the pump, its protective bag, label etc. In some cases, health care professionals may use the trade name adrucil® when referring to the generic drug name fluorouracil.