[The team medical support in out-patient chemotherapy: a role of nurses].

The number of cancer patients and families desiring home-based care and out-patient chemotherapy has been increasing. Hence, a support system for home-based care is urgently needed for a patient with recurrent and/or advanced unresectable cancer who recieved cancer chemotherapy. The cancer therapy especially in patients with colorectal cancer could have expected an improvement of the prognosis utilizing FOLFOX/FOLFIRI, a standard therapy established in Europe and America.