Chemo brain” affects up to 80% of people receiving chemotherapy, making everyday tasks harder. In a new trial, cancer ...

Chemotherapy drugs can kill cancerous cells through several mechanisms. There are many types of chemotherapy drugs, including alkylating agents and antimetabolites. Chemotherapy drugs are unable to ...

Patients with advanced squamous non-small-cell lung cancer who received the bispecific antibody ivonescimab alongside ...

Hair loss is one of the most feared and traumatic side effects of cancer chemotherapy treatment, both for patients themselves and their loved ones, as it can visibly represent the "face of cancer." ...

In an interim analysis of this phase 3 trial, the addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy resulted in longer progression-free survival than chemotherapy alone among patients with advanced ...

Neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy confers a modest benefit over surgery alone for resectable non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In early-phase trials, nivolumab-based neoadjuvant regimens have ...

Chemotherapy has transformed cancer care, but its benefits come with side effects. “Chemo brain” is the name some people give to the brain fog and fuzziness that can result from these lifesaving ...

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 ...

Chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia is a low platelet count caused by chemo drugs damaging bone marrow cells that produce platelets. This happens because chemo targets all quickly replicating cells ...

Intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy is a type of ovarian cancer treatment in which chemo drugs are directly pumped into your belly cavity (also called peritoneal cavity). When you get chemo this way, it ...