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 ...

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 ...

Although use of oral chemotherapy is becoming more prevalent, little is known about the quality of care that patients receive when these agents are prescribed. Moreover, few practice-level systems are ...

Some people have an allergic reaction to chemotherapy. Allergic reactions can range from mild skin irritation to life threatening anaphylaxis. To avoid this, your care team will monitor you during and ...

Sacubitril-valsartan, a common drug combination for heart failure, cuts the risk for cardiomyopathy after chemotherapy in patients who received anthracycline drugs by 77% in the first randomized ...

Experts agree that combination approaches, which may or may not include chemotherapy, will drive improved patient outcomes in oncology.

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 ...