Mar 13, 2024 · (VIDEO) Treatment options for advanced colorectal cancer Mayo Clinic experts present key cancer research findings at ASCO Mayo Clinic Q&A: Reconnect with exercise …

May 23, 2025 · This is why HIPEC is often referred to as a "chemo wash" or "hot chemo bath." Heating chemotherapy medicine can help it penetrate into tissues and enhance the medicine's …

Jun 15, 2025 · My husband had a full course of six docetaxel/taxotere chemo infusions every three weeks in 2016. He had the usual side effects of fatigue, loss of hair, chemical taste in his …

Apr 20, 2025 · If you are just working with a medical oncologist, you may want to talk to a different doctor for a second opinion. Chemo may be right for you, But with only one metastasis, that is …

We don’t fully understand why chemo brain happens, but it’s likely the result of several things. Treatments can negatively affect healthy brain cells even if the cancer is not in the brain, and …

Aug 1, 2025 · Description Temozolomide is used to treat specific types of brain cancer (eg, glioblastoma multiforme, anaplastic astrocytoma) in patients whose tumors have returned or …

Jan 15, 2025 · I had chemo that caused my hair to fall out about 32 years ago, at age 43. Losing hair was quite shocking to me and depressing along with the mastectomy; I tried a wig for a …

Apr 29, 2025 · I’ve completed 3 rounds of carbo/taxel chemo with a 4th round scheduled prior to cytoreductive surgery. My platelet count keeps dropping and is now too low for me to have my …

Apr 12, 2025 · If the surgeries were in the last 2 years, why are they only now suggesting the chemo? What changed their minds that is wasn't brought up at the time of surgery?

Apr 1, 2025 · If you’re on chemo, you’re already on a medication that’s killing cancer cells. The other frightening statement is that it may also enhance the effects of other cancer treatments, …