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 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 ...

Post-chemo care After completing chemotherapy, rebuilding one's strength both physically and mentally is crucial. The emotional impact of cancer treatment can be significant, and it's important to ...

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 ...

First-in-human pancreatic cancer trial at WVU tests an implant that delivers chemotherapy directly into tumors using low-voltage electric pulses. The WVU Cancer Institute is helping lead a global ...

What Is Adjuvant Chemotherapy (Preventive Chemotherapy)? Adjuvant chemotherapy – also called preventive chemotherapy – is a cancer treatment you get after surgery, radiation, or other main treatments ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses drugs that kill rapidly dividing cancer cells to prevent them from growing and making more cells. Many chemotherapy drugs have adverse effects that can be severe.