Overcoming tumor resistance to chemotherapy drugs has long been a challenge for oncology clinicians and researchers. Now, a new study suggests that blocking a key protein, p300, may force damaged ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chemotherapy is powerful cancer medication – but it can also be a very challenging treatment. It works by killing fast-growing cancer cells but kills healthy cells too, so it’s important to know how ...

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, ...

Chemotherapy may lead to temporary or permanent male infertility. Chemotherapy is a potent cancer treatment that involves drugs that target and destroy rapidly dividing cancer cells. Although it is ...

Chemotherapy may lead to tooth decay or infections by weakening the immune system and slowing down the regeneration of oral cells. Side effects are usually short term, and practicing oral hygiene may ...

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 ...

Some chemotherapy drugs cause more damage to healthy cells than other chemo options do, a new study finds. The researchers have found four new mutational signatures — patterns of DNA damage left by ...