Neuropathy was the most common reason for early adjuvant discontinuation in the six-month group, while gastrointestinal toxicity was most common in the three-month group. After excluding duration of ...

CET: Cetuximab; Chrono-IFLO: Chronomodulated 5fluorouracil/leucovorin, oxaliplatin and irinotecan; FLOX: bolus 5fluorouracil/leucovorin and oxaliplatin; FOLFIRI ...

The role of adjuvant immunotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains uncertain. Standard therapy for TNBC includes neoadjuvant pembrolizumab with chemotherapy followed by ...

The most common drugs for gastric cancer are fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin ... [When] we’re giving chemotherapy before surgery, we call that neoadjuvant and if we’re giving it after surgery, ...

But for many others, chemotherapy will also be part of the treatment plan. Chemotherapy can be given before surgery (neoadjuvant) in an attempt to shrink the tumor or after surgery (adjuvant) to get ...

There is a commercial arrangement for pembrolizumab. NHS organisations can get details on the Commercial Access and Pricing (CAP) Portal. Non-NHS organisations can contact [email protected] for ...

On November 13, at a government hospital in Tamil Nadu, the son of a woman who was receiving chemotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma, stabbed her doctor, disturbed by the suffering that his mother was ...

Combination of radiation, chemotherapy and immunotherapy can shrink tumors and allow surgery, with much better survival rate than non-surgical treatment alone.

However, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy is under-assessed and undertreated ... Improve overall survival with oxaliplatin, fluorouracil, and leucovorin as adjuvant treatment in stage II or ...

Results from a randomized, phase 2 clinical trial show that adding high-dose, intravenous (IV) vitamin C to chemotherapy doubles the overall survival of patients with late-stage metastatic ...

They may thus have a role to play in colorectal cancer, perhaps more as adjuvant agents to chemotherapy, or in combination with drugs exhibiting different mechanism of action, such as NSAIDs or ...