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Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin, carboplatin, docetaxel, and capecitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving bexarotene and tretinoin together with combination chemotherapy may kill more tumor cells.
Chemotherapy uses anti cancer (or cytotoxic) drugs to destroy cancer cells. You may have chemotherapy after pancreatic surgery. If the cancer was totally removed, the chemotherapy can lower the risk of cancer coming back.OLFIRINOX combination chemotherapy. For advanced pancreatic cancer, doctors may use a combination of the chemotherapy drugs fluorouracil, irinotecan and oxaliplatin (FOLFIRINOX). You have these drugs every 2 weeks through a drip into a vein.