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

These details were outlined in a Parliamentary Standing Committee report, tabled on March 12, pertaining to the demand for ...

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 ...

Chemotherapy works by killing existing cancer cells and can help prevent the disease coming back. There are many different types of chemotherapy, but the most common types are tablets and liquids ...

A chemotherapy port (also known as a chemo port) is a small device placed under the skin that is attached to a vein in the chest to deliver chemotherapy drugs to the body. Without a port, a new ...

Your doctor or nurse will explain this to you. You may have chemotherapy on its own before radiotherapy or surgery. This helps shrink the cancer and make treatment work better. This is called ...

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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’s a discussion with the patient, sometimes trial and error, to see what works,” Dr. Howard Colman, a neuro-oncologist at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, ...