Four in every 10 cancer patients treated with chemotherapy develop severe peripheral nerve pain, a new review suggests.
Worldwide, cancer chemotherapy is linked to persistent severe peripheral nerve pain (neuropathy) for around 4 in every 10 patients treated with these drugs, suggests a pooled data analysis of the ...
Subgroup analyses showed that patients treated with platinum-based agents and taxanes had the highest prevalence of chronic ...
Chemotherapy has been known to cause damage to peripheral nerves, and sometimes the pain is chronic and severe enough that chemotherapy doses are reduced or discontinued. But prior research has not ...
BC, CNM, RNFA, spoke about the oncology nurse’s and APP’s roles in managing chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in ...
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common and often debilitating side effect of cancer treatment, particularly associated with certain chemotherapeutic agents like taxanes and ...
Have you experienced pain or tingling in your hands or feet? Those are signs of possible neuropathy, “a general term for ...
Among patients with resected gallbladder cancer, the addition of chemoradiation to chemotherapy treatment did not improve ...
CheckMate 649 trial showed sustained efficacy with frontline nivolumab plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy alone in patients with gastric cancers.