Intermittent shortages of various injectable chemotherapy drugs have become a regular part of cancer care, with oncology practices reporting that despite their best efforts to mitigate supply ...

Sacubitril-valsartan, a common drug combination for heart failure, cuts the risk for cardiomyopathy after chemotherapy in patients who received anthracycline drugs by 77% in the first randomized ...

Scientists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have used nanotechnology to re-engineer the molecular structure of a common chemotherapy drug to turn it into a wonderous cure for ...

In a promising advance for cancer treatment, Northwestern University scientists have re-engineered the molecular structure of a common chemotherapy drug, making it dramatically more soluble and ...

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 ...

Statins might help protect cancer patients from 'chemo brain' Patients taking the drugs had better executive function than those on a placebo Protection lasted up to two years after treatment MONDAY, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Some of the nation’s largest cancer centers are reporting little improvement in an ongoing shortage of critical chemotherapy drugs in the United States. Overall, the majority of surveyed ...