The finding suggests other chemo drugs, too, may be making cancer cells cause a surprising immune-system reaction.

Results from a global phase 3 clinical trial led by investigators at Mass General Brigham show that the medication romiplostim can effectively prevent chemotherapy from destroying platelet-producing ...

A gene called FOXJ1 may drive resistance to taxane chemotherapy during treatment for advanced prostate cancer, according to a new study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Beth Israel ...

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 ...

Chemotherapy’s gut damage turns out to have a surprising upside. By changing nutrient availability in the intestine, it alters gut bacteria and increases levels of a microbial molecule that travels to ...

Researchers have developed a non-invasive method to improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy while reducing its harmful side effects. By applying brief, localized pulses of magnetic fields, the team ...

Female cancer patients have a 21% lower risk of death than men across 12 different types of advanced cancers, researchers recently reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

DOCTOR, SEVERAL NEW TREATMENTS ARE REVOLUTIONIZING THE FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER AND CHIEF OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY AT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER, DOCTOR DAVID REISBERG IS JOINING US NOW WITH SOME MORE ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - October is breast cancer awareness month. A time not only for education and early detection, but also for hope and survival. A local pharmacology professor went from teaching ...