Adrenal Cancer Chemotherapy

The drugs used in chemotherapy attack and kill cells that divide quickly, including cancer cells and some normal cells. How chemotherapy drugs affect those normal cells is based on the types of drugs used and the person getting the drugs. In general, chemotherapy is not very effective for adrenal cancer, and if at all possible, surgery should be considered the treatment of choice. Chemotherapy can be tried for cancer that has come back (recurred) or spread to other parts of the body (metastasis). The most commonly used chemotherapy for adrenal cancer are mitotane, cisplatin, etoposide, and doxorubicin.