"Metronomic Therapy"

[AJINKYA]

What exactly is metronomic therapy in tnbc . How is it different from regular therapy and what less side effects are seen in metronomic therapy than general chemo therapy. And is this therapy given  to avoid the recurrence.How it avoids the recurrence .

[VgonnaMkit]

Hi Ajinkya......We stay at Delhi and my wife has also been diagnosed with TNBC. She's having her neoadjuvant chemotherapy. 

I consulted Tata memorial for MMT and they said they will review her RCB post our current treatment and accordingly suggest for MMT.

Lets  see if we can hear from someone who is currently having it.....

Best of luck...GK

[kontak TeamBCI]

Not much aware.  Lets see what our Doctors or members have to say

[sumeet_shah Administrator]

To explain metronomic chemotherapy would be too long; I request you to search Google with "Metronomic Chemotherapy", I checked all the first page search links and almost all of them explain the same in detail and beautifully.

The principle of metronomic therapy is to give low dose chemotherapy on a long term basis. It is definitely given to avoid recurrence. I have myself seen the effects of metronomic chemo in patients with head and neck cancer while I was at Tata Memorial Centre. Not all respond, but those who do respond, the effects were good.

Metronomic therapy will not cause much of side effects since its given in lower doses.

Please note that Metronomic therapy is presently not a standard of care and trials are still going on, so it should be taken only from a centre conducting such a trial.