In March 2024, Catherine, the Princess of Wales, announced her cancer diagnosis. The 42-year-old did not reveal the type of cancer she was facing but shared that she had undergone major abdominal ...

Most people who undergo chemotherapy do not develop heart failure. However, specific chemotherapy drugs may significantly increase your risk of heart failure and other cardiac problems. Chemotherapy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered how chemotherapy can change tumors, making them more vulnerable to new types of treatments. These findings could lead to personalized therapies that target the right ...

Chemotherapy can be life-saving for many patients, but not all tumors respond—and some that do, may eventually become ...

Chemotherapy has long forced patients to choose between fighting their cancer and living with nerve pain that can linger for years after treatment ends. Now a wave of basic science and early clinical ...

A targeted drug-delivery system called TAMP aims to send chemotherapy near pancreatic tumors instead of through the entire body in a Phase III trial.

The targeted therapy sunvozertinib was more effective than standard platinum-based chemotherapy as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) driven by EGFR ...

Certain chemotherapy regimens can lead to temporary or permanent infertility. Chemotherapy is a cornerstone of cancer treatment, renowned for its ability to eliminate cancer cells. However, the potent ...