If your doctor has recommended chemotherapy as part of your cancer treatment, you might be nervous. Maybe you have had a family member who found the treatment grueling or a friend who experienced ...

Chemotherapy is a vital treatment for people with all forms of cancer. It's a process that uses drugs designed to kill, damage or slow the spread of cancer cells, preventing them from growing and ...

Medications and extra fluid infusions can help protect your kidneys from damage during chemotherapy. More than one million people receive chemotherapy or radiation treatments for their cancer each ...

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 ...

Michigan State University researchers have identified how ovarian cancer cells become resistant to chemotherapy and ...

Chemotherapy is a high-risk medication and is the second most common cause of fatal medication errors. The ordering process can be unsafe and inefficient, putting patients at risk for medication ...

When a friend, family member, or public figure—most recently, Kate Middleton—says they’re going through chemotherapy, your mind might paint a pretty depressing picture. Perhaps you recount the images ...

Chemotherapy is a common part of cancer treatment, but it often raises concerns about hair loss. However, does every chemotherapy drug cause hair loss? And is there anything you can do to prevent this ...

After seeing friends shave their heads to deal with hair loss during chemotherapy for breast cancer, Florida resident Jo Steinhart, 70, hoped that she would not have to do the same after getting ...

Chemotherapy may contribute to liver damage. If you have cirrhosis or other liver problems, your doctor might consider other cancer treatments. Your liver filters potentially harmful substances from ...