Patients with testicular cancer had fewer venous access-related complications and overall thrombotic events when first-line chemotherapy was delivered via peripheral intravenous access compared with ...

Systemic chemotherapy is when chemotherapy drugs travel throughout your body. This type of chemotherapy can be given intravenously or orally. Chemotherapy, or “chemo,” is a type of cancer treatment ...

Chemotherapy (chemo) can be delivered in many different ways. How it’s delivered depends on a variety of factors, including the type of cancer being treated, how far the cancer has spread, and the ...

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 ...

There were no major differences in survival when comparing intravenous and intraperitoneal chemotherapy plus Avastin in patients with advanced ovarian cancer, research shows. There were no differences ...

A chemotherapy pump is a device that dispenses chemotherapy drugs at a slow, controlled rate into the body. Portable versions of these devices can allow a person to receive chemo in the comfort of ...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is a treatment for advanced ovarian cancer – cancer at stage III or IV. It uses chemo drugs to shrink tumors before any surgery is done to remove them. NACT uses a ...

When a friend, family member, or public figure—most recently, Kate Middleton—says they’re going through chemotherapy, your mind might paint a pretty depressing picture. Perhaps you recount the images ...

For patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), subcutaneous (SC) administration of pembrolizumab works just as well as standard intravenous (IV) administration, phase 3 data ...