What Are Anticancer Medicines?

Anticancer medicines are the bunch of live saving molecules that have efficacy to fight against cancerous disease.

They are classified into ten major classes - Polyfunctional alkylating agent, other alkylating agent, antimetabolites, purine anatagonists, pyrimidine antagonists, plant alkaloids, antibiotics, monoclonal antibiotics, hormonal agents and miscellaneous anticancer agents.

Effects of Anticancer Medicines

Anticancer medicines are well capable to cure cancer as it has efficacy to kill cancerous cells.

We all know cancer is a very dangerous life taking disease; it is very difficult to treat cancer if it is on last stage. But it can be easily cure and treated if cancer gets detected in their earlier stage. This all can happen due to anticancer medication and therapy.

Side effects of Anticancer Medicines

As we know all the medicines have some side effects, so anticancer medicines have also some side effects. When we started anticancer medication treatment these drugs target cancerous cells but along with these cells they also target some normal cells which shows some common side effects like:

Nausea, Vomiting, loss of appetite, constipation, hair loss, pain, skin reaction, tiredness, abdominal pain, headache, mouth soreness, anaemia, hormonal changes, blurring of vision, body ache etc.

These anticancer medicines are available on pharmacy but only issued on prescription from health professionals.

Pharmaceutical organization like Affy group is involved in manufacturing of anticancer medicines in India. They are the manufacturer of anticancer injections in India as well as anticancer tablets and other dosage forms.