Chemotherapy is designed to save lives, but its effects extend far beyond the internal fight. As these powerful medications target rapidly dividing cancer cells, they inevitably influence other ...

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 which means the medicines will travel ...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a course of chemotherapy that’s given before your primary treatment, which is often surgery. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy specifically refers to chemotherapy administered ...

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 ...

Chemotherapy has long forced patients to choose between fighting their cancer and living with nerve pain that can linger for years after treatment ends. Now a wave of basic science and early clinical ...

Finding out you have colorectal cancer can feel overwhelming, but you are not alone. Turn to your healthcare team to guide you through treatment and recovery. One common and effective treatment is ...

Keytruda is not chemotherapy. It’s a type of treatment called immunotherapy. It works with the body’s immune system, helping T cells fight cancer cells. With immunotherapy, the body’s immune system ...

"Therapy for small, node-negative, HER2-positive breast cancer can be challenging due to the risk of overtreatment. Our study can help assess outcomes of patients according to specific tumor sizes and ...

Among patients with resected gallbladder cancer, the addition of chemoradiation to chemotherapy treatment did not improve relapse-free survival. Among patients with resected gallbladder cancer, the ...