Hearing the words, “You have cancer,” can be one of the most difficult experiences someone can go through. While processing the gravity of such a diagnosis, it’s natural to wonder what to ...

Chemotherapy works by killing existing cancer cells and can help prevent the disease coming back. There are many different ...

This month, Dr. Prasad Abeysinghe, a Consultant Oncologist at the Maharagama Cancer Hospital explains how chemotherapy works, when it is most effective and why it’s important that you understand ...

The cancer cells escaped cell death only when the team exposed them to chemotherapy drugs like raltitrexed, a treatment for advanced bowel cancer that works by inhibiting DNA replication. When they ...

Medicare covers prescribed chemotherapy drugs. How and where a person receives chemotherapy helps determine which Medicare part provides the coverage. When a person receives a cancer diagnosis ...

Cryotherapy is emerging as a promising strategy to prevent chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, but adoption in clinical practice remains limited.

Narrator In general, chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells. Sometimes healthy cells are killed along with malignant ones. It's this friendly fire that accounts for many of chemo's unfavorable ...

How soon you can start chemotherapy after having your port placed can depend on certain factors, including the urgency in beginning treatment and your recovery following port insertion.

It works by activating the immune system-- your ... Treatment for metastatic breast cancer usually involves some combination of chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and targeted drugs.

For nearly 50 years, doctors have known that the drug retinoic acid helps treat neuroblastoma, a type of solid tumor that ...