Cancer is one of the most serious diseases in the world, and many people feel worried when they hear the word. Over the years ...

Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses drugs that kill rapidly dividing cancer cells to prevent them from growing and making more cells. Many chemotherapy drugs have adverse effects that can be severe.

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

During and after chemotherapy, nearly half of cancer patients endure circadian rhythm disruptions, which worsens treatment side effects. Because the body’s primary rhythm pacemaker is in the brain, ...

Cancer care has long focused on what drugs to give and in what doses, but a growing body of evidence suggests the clock on the wall may be just as important. Researchers are finding that the hour a ...

Metronomic chemotherapy with capecitabine (Xeloda) plus an aromatase inhibitor (AI) could be a first-line treatment option for some patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer, ...