Heating chemotherapy and administering it into the abdominal cavity allows children with desmoplastic small round cell tumors to be treated with minimal side effects. Hyperthermic intraperitoneal ...

Objectives: To determine patient preferences and cost differences between home-based and hospital-based chemotherapy. Design: Randomised crossover trial. Setting: A tertiary cancer hospital in ...

In 2009, ASCO and the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) published standards for the safe use of parenteral chemotherapy in the outpatient setting, including issues of practitioner orders, preparation, ...

Rising rates of early-onset colon cancer (EOCC) present challenges in deciding how to optimally treat patients. Although standard of care for stage II CC is surgical resection, adding chemotherapy for ...

Some people have an allergic reaction to chemotherapy. Allergic reactions can range from mild skin irritation to life threatening anaphylaxis. To avoid this, your care team will monitor you during and ...

Chemotherapy (chemo) can be delivered in many different ways. How it’s delivered depends on a variety of factors, including the type of cancer being treated, how far the cancer has spread, and the ...

Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses one or more drugs to kill cancer in your body. It is often called “chemo” for short. Cancer cells in your body grow and multiply very quickly, and chemo slows ...

Investigators concluded that reference or biosimilar pegfilgrastim could be safely administered to patients with lymphoma on the same day they receive chemotherapy, which could reduce scheduling ...

Chemotherapy drugs, which could be poisons, can result in adverse health outcomes in healthcare workers who administer them to patients without adequate safety measures. A new National Institute for ...

Sejal Davla obtained a PhD in neuroscience from McGill University, where she studied glia development and function in sleep and circadian rhythms. During this time, she worked with numerous science ...

This age-old adage has become the mantra of a few medical cancer specialists as they deliver a treatment modality that is anything but traditional. They practice chronomodulated chemotherapy—infusing ...