Preventive chemotherapy, or adjuvant chemotherapy, is administered after your primary cancer treatment. It’s used to destroy remaining cancer cells in your body that might be undetectable. Preventive ...

Epigenetic therapies are offering a more targeted way to treat some lymphomas by changing how genes are turned on or off ...

Chemotherapy can affect a person’s vision. Although most changes usually stop after the treatment, some may last longer. Sudden vision changes need immediate medical attention. While most vision side ...

Engaging in a simple home-based exercise regimen of walking and resistance training during chemotherapy can help patients ...

Most people who undergo chemotherapy do not develop heart failure. However, specific chemotherapy drugs may significantly increase your risk of heart failure and other cardiac problems. Chemotherapy ...

During and after chemotherapy, nearly half of cancer patients endure circadian rhythm disruptions, which worsens treatment side effects. Because the body’s primary rhythm pacemaker is in the brain, ...

Cancer care has long focused on what drugs to give and in what doses, but a growing body of evidence suggests the clock on the wall may be just as important. Researchers are finding that the hour a ...

Metronomic chemotherapy with capecitabine (Xeloda) plus an aromatase inhibitor (AI) could be a first-line treatment option for some patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, ...