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How To Help Prevent Numbness In Feet And Hands After Chemo
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Chemotherapy uses drugs that kill cancer cells throughout the body. There are two situations in which chemotherapy is used:
- The adjuvant setting. Adjuvant refers to the use of chemotherapy after surgery in patients with Stage III tumors and selected patients with high-risk Stage II tumors (disease that is potentially curable). The goal of this therapy is to eliminate any cancer cells that surgery may have missed, thereby preventing recurrence and increasing the chance of cure. Patients...
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New Research Questions Taxol's Efficacy for Common Breast Cancer
By Jeannette Vagnozzi , Health Expert...clinical trials, Taxol became a new standard in breast cancer chemotherapy, frequently given in... Read more »
Taxol Toes: Coping with Peripheral Neuropathy
By Phyllis Johnson , Health ExpertWhen my hands and feet started hurting about a year after I finished chemo, my oncologist said I... Read more »
My Neuropathy
By David Mendosa , Health ExpertA few days ago when I finally was able to see a neurologist for the headaches that started four... Read more »
Keri's Breast Cancer Story: The "Halfway" Mark
By Doug Haberstroh , Health Expert...words of advice to us were to make sure we carry hand sanitizer with us everywhere and keep her... Read more »
New FAQ on the Sexual Side Effects of Chemotherapy
By PJ Hamel , Health ExpertFor once those powerful chemo drugs aren’t the primary cause of the aggravating side effects to... Read more »
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Foot Pain: Introduction
...feels like a ball. This may be detected by pressing top to bottom on the top of the foot using one hand and moving the other hand from side to side. Morton's neuroma is aggravated by prolonged... Read more »Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Chemotherapy Treatments
Chemotherapy TreatmentsChemotherapy employs drugs given orally or by injection to destroy cancer cells that may have spread beyond the tumor. Until recently, there has been some doubt about the... Read more »Hodgkin's Disease: Highlights
Hodgkins Disease and Long-Term ComplicationsSurvivors of childhood Hodgkins disease face long-term health complications from their cancer treatments. A 2006 study in the New England Journal... Read more »Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
ChemotherapyChemotherapy regimens are designed to kill cancer cells throughout the body. It has advantages for nearly every patient regardless of whether the cancer is hormone receptor-positive or... Read more »Shingles and Chickenpox (Varicella-Zoster Virus): Complications
...For example, disseminated varicella occurs in up to 35% of children with chickenpox who are taking cancer chemotherapy. In such cases, mortality rates are between 7 - 30%.Reye Syndrome. Reye... Read more »Images
Diagram of a human skeleton, including hands and feet... Read more »
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