Browsing: chemotherapy

A new chemotherapy drug promises to treat some patients with pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who have been unable to…

Often used in conjunction with radiation or surgery, chemotherapy is drug therapy tailored to each individual cancer patient with the aim of preventing cancer spread, slowing cancer growth and killing cancer cells. Unfortunately, it can bring a host of debilitating side effects.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a disease of the lungs that can cause heart failure and death, and it’s being linked…

Are you considering taking a COVID-19 antibody test to see if you’ve already had the disease? Not all tests are…

Dry eye disease is irritating and painful. As an optometrist, I know there are many possible causes, but the medicines…

When you need treatment, how do you choose between 2 drugs each with its own set of side effects? This…

Chemo travels throughout your body and is non-selective, meaning the drugs kill any cell that divides quickly anywhere in your body. Because of that, chemo has limited effectiveness and, as is widely known, very bad side effects.  Is Artifical Intelligence the answer?

Efudex: Chemotherapy Cream When April Pulliam first treated her chest with the chemotherapy cream Efudex, the itching, burning, seeping sores…

By Diane Archer JustCareUSA Older adults are taking medical marijuana to ease pain and anxiety. But, as Dr. Marc Manseau…

In 2016, at the age of 44, Susan Leonard was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer. For the last two…