Chemotherapy during pregnancy is safe and effective, with outcomes comparable or superior to nonpregnant breast cancer patients. Pregnant patients showed better progression-free survival and similar ...

Chemotherapy remains one of the most powerful tools in the fight against cancer, yet it often comes with significant ...

Complete DPD deficiency markedly impairs 5-FU catabolism, increasing risk of early severe diarrhea, mucositis, neutropenia, ...

Preventive chemotherapy, or adjuvant chemotherapy, is administered after your primary cancer treatment. It’s used to destroy remaining cancer cells in your body that might be undetectable. Preventive ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Treating pregnant cancer patients with powerful chemotherapy drugs appears not to harm their unborn children, but pre-term delivery to avoid subjecting them to chemotherapy does, ...

What Is Adjuvant Chemotherapy (Preventive Chemotherapy)? Adjuvant chemotherapy – also called preventive chemotherapy – is a cancer treatment you get after surgery, radiation, or other main treatments ...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a course of chemotherapy that’s given before your primary treatment, which is often surgery. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy specifically refers to chemotherapy administered ...

Docetaxel and mitoxantrone can be combined safely as chemotherapy prior to radical prostatectomy for high-risk prostate cancer, according to a study. In addition, the study demonstrated that it is ...

Chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses medications to kill fast-growing cancer cells. Depression may be one of the possible side effects of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy medications travel ...

A cancer patient’s viral TikTok video is drawing attention to a hidden danger of chemotherapy — the risk it may pose to others in the same household, especially through shared bathrooms. Misty Myers ...

Using a concurrent embedded mixed method design, 35 OPs completed a questionnaire, and 12 others responded to a semistructured interview. The data were then subjected to inductive thematic and ...