Breast cancer survivors who received chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, or both showed a significant decline in physical health during the first 2 years after diagnosis compared with those without ...

One of those lesser-known struggles is a condition known as chemo mouth, a painful side effect of chemotherapy and radiation. For some, chemo mouth can result in mouth sores and other ...

Medicare covers prescribed chemotherapy drugs. How and where a person receives chemotherapy helps determine which Medicare part provides the coverage. When a person receives a cancer diagnosis ...

Many cancer patients go on to develop heart failure—because of the cancer itself and also due to chemotherapy. This can lead to a reduced quality of life, multiple admissions to hospital or even ...

The latest Herceptin biosimilar is branded as Kanjinti (trastuzumab-anns) and is approved in all indications of the reference product. These are for the treatment of HER2-overexpressing adjuvant ...

Mason Conner was nonverbal until age 3, when his parents gave him a drug usually given to chemo patients. CBS News One family’s breakthrough may provide hope for thousands of parents who’ve ...

Leucovorin is currently prescribed to ease the side effects of cancer chemotherapy. Pregnant women are prescribed multivitamins with folic acid to prevent neural tube defects. The neural tube ...

Oral chemotherapy kills or weakens cancer cells. It comes in the form of a pill, liquid, or tablet that a person swallows or places under the tongue to dissolve. It is not suitable for all stages ...

Eating a nutritious, balanced diet while on chemotherapy can help support your treatment and overall health. Mild foods that are easy on the stomach, such as oatmeal and eggs, may be good options.

Also called an implanted port, port-a-cath or medi-port, a chemo port has two parts: the port and the catheter. The port is a quarter-sized plastic or metal disc. (If you have the metal kind ...

Chemotherapy can help you get better. But you’re more likely to get infections when you’re on it. That’s because the drugs that kill cancer also attack your white blood cells, which fight germs.

When it rains too much in San Francisco, the city's wastewater treatment plant can get overloaded. An overloaded wastewater treatment plant means that a city-operated, EPA-permitted point source ...