Most people with cancer pass away from the complications of their cancer rather than cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy. It’s extremely difficult to determine whether there’s a correlation ...

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

New research suggests that a healthy microbiome before chemotherapy could help protect breast cancer patients against heart damage, or cardiotoxicity, as a result of cancer therapy. Researchers found ...

Chemotherapy, anti-cancer drugs that stop the growth of tumor cells, encompasses a wide variety of different agents. Some chemotherapeutic agents work by directly killing cancer cells, while others ...

First-line zanidatamab plus chemotherapy leads to ‘practice-changing’ PFS and overall survival gains in a phase 3 study of ...

December 23, 2008 — In the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer, neoadjuvant chemotherapy before surgical debulking may be the new standard of care — especially in countries where the scheduling of a ...

New research suggests that a healthy microbiome before chemotherapy could help protect breast cancer patients against heart damage, or cardiotoxicity, as a result of cancer therapy. Subscribe to our ...

Chemo rash is one of the most common side effects of cancer treatment. These rashes usually aren’t serious, but they can cause pain, itching, and other uncomfortable symptoms. Chemotherapy, also ...

Neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy significantly improved pathological complete response and event-free survival in patients with resectable non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a phase 3 trial.