Researchers at the National University of Singapore have engineered a common gut bacterium to carry a chemotherapy prodrug ...

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

But the injectable drug romiplostim (Nplate) can effectively prevent chemo from causing thrombocytopenia, by boosting bone marrow cells’ ability to withstand the cancer treatment, researchers reported ...

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An international team of researchers has achieved a breakthrough in the production of doxorubicin, a vital chemotherapy agent ...

Taking a pill is the easiest, least invasive way to take medicine, but unfortunately, not all drugs work that way. Now, Stanford scientists have found “an embarrassingly simple solution” that could ...

A newly discovered gene switch may help turn chemotherapy-resistant pancreatic cancer into a treatable disease.

Epigenetic therapies are offering a more targeted way to treat some lymphomas by changing how genes are turned on or off ...

Since the 1950s a chemotherapy drug known as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) has been used to treat many types of cancer, including blood cancers and cancers of the digestive tract. Doctors have long believed ...

Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy may soon have a new option to try to keep their hair — a shampoo-like gel that could protect hair from falling out during chemo. Baldness from ...

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