HealthDay News — For patients with breast cancer, administration of pegfilgrastim 72 hours postchemotherapy reduces pegfilgrastim-induced bone pain (PIBP) compared with administration at 24 and 48 ...
Pegfilgrastim helps prevent myelosuppression in women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer but can also cause severe ...
Objectives: To determine patient preferences and cost differences between home-based and hospital-based chemotherapy. Design: Randomised crossover trial. Setting: A tertiary cancer hospital in ...
What is the closed-loop drug delivery system you are developing for chemotherapy? We are designing a system that is able to keep the concentration of a drug near its target concentration in the blood ...
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In November 2009, ASCO and the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) jointly published a set of 31 voluntary chemotherapy safety standards for adult patients with cancer, as the end result of a highly ...
Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting are among the most distressing side effects of anti-cancer treatment, particularly for those receiving highly emetogenic regimens such as anthracycline plus ...
A new study published in JCO Precision Oncology has identified a relatively simple method to predict the cancer patients most likely to develop severe toxicities from chemotherapy. If doctors can ...