Pumps that deliver cancer-fighting drugs through IV lines help ensure that you receive the proper dose at the correct rate. They’re used in home and hospital settings. Share on Pinterest BrianAJackson ...

To improve chemotherapy dosing, engineers designed CLAUDIA, a way to continuously measure how much drug is in a patient's system during hours-long infusion. When cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, ...

When cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, the dose of most drugs is calculated based on the patient's body surface area. This is estimated by plugging the patient's height and weight into an equation ...

Slower infusion rates of antiemetic drugs may help manage nausea and vomiting in patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancers. Slower infusion rates of antiemetic combination drugs have ...

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 ...

What Is Adjuvant Chemotherapy (Preventive Chemotherapy)? Adjuvant chemotherapy – also called preventive chemotherapy – is a cancer treatment you get after surgery, radiation, or other main treatments ...

Patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment get to know, and perhaps loathe, their chemotherapy chairs. The treatments typically consist of an intravenous infusion of drugs that attack fast-growing, ...

(CNN) — The Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, the first medicine proven to slow the course of the disease, may be able to be given as a set of two weekly shots at home, a study from drugmaker Eisai suggests, ...