While intravenous chemotherapy can be life-saving, it can also be inconvenient and potentially painful. The individual has to go to
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Chemotherapy patients are at risk from poor food safety practices at home
While chemotherapy is a gruelling form of treatment in itself, the reduced immune system function that it causes can leave
Continue reading »Chemotherapy may lead to early menopause in young women with lung cancer
A new study suggests chemotherapy may cause acute amenorrhea leading to early menopause in women with lung cancer. The study
Continue reading »Statins found to enhance efficacy of chemotherapy drug in blood cancers
A team of researchers with members affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has found that some statins could enhance
Continue reading »Breast cancer patients could be SPARED from gruelling chemotherapy
More than two thirds of breast cancer patients diagnosed each year could be SPARED from gruelling chemotherapy ordeal by taking
Continue reading »Elderly less likely to benefit from simultaneous radio- and chemotherapy for lung cancer
An analysis of elderly patients treated in a phase II trial of radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy in non-small cell lung
Continue reading »Study may explain why some triple-negative breast cancers are resistant to chemotherapy
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of the disease accounting for 12 to 18 percent of breast cancers.
Continue reading »Gene mapping lays groundwork for precision chemotherapy
Despite the great successes of targeted cancer drugs and the promise of novel immunotherapies, the vast majority of people diagnosed
Continue reading »Structural studies help explain how cancer cells resist chemotherapy
In order to kill cancer cells, chemotherapy drugs must first make their way inside them. But cancer cells are shrewd,
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