As part of its Speaking Out video series, CURE spoke with Sarah Miretti Cassidy, director of external affairs at Cancer Hope Network, about the psychosocial effects of a lung cancer diagnosis. This is a modal window. The Playback API request failed for an unknown re...
Lung cancer ranks first among other cancers as the primary cause of cancer deaths annually. Lung cancer creates abnormalities in the modulating circuits that govern cellular proliferation as well homeostasis. The metamorphosis from a normal cell to a malignant cancerous phenotype is supposed to ...
Lorbrena is a prescription medicine that is used to treat people with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The most common side effects of Lorbrena include swelling in your arms, legs, hands and feet (edema), numbness and tingling feeling in your joints or arms and legs (peripheral neuropathy...
Chemotherapy side effects remain a huge challenge in the treatment of oncology diseases, in particular in the treatment of lung cancer- in some cases even limiting the achievement of maximal therapeutic effect. This article is a review of the main chemotherapy and targeted therapy related adverse ev...
Ceritinib is a medication used to treat anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in adults. Common side effects of ceritinib include diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and comfort, constipation, indi
The third edition of this book has been extensively expanded to discuss all aspects of cancer treatment side-effects in everyday life, covering a range of issues from skin problems to fertility problems, Divided in three major parts, the first part covers medical cancer therapy side effects, ran...
Multi-center prospective randomized trial on paclitaxel liposome and traditional taxol in the treatment of breast cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer Objective To analyze the effects and side effects of paclitaxel liposome formula on breast cancer and non small cell lung cancer, compared with ...
Side effects of cancer treatment that don’t go away after your treatment ends are known as “long-term side effects.” Working with your cancer-care team to manage late- and long-term side effects of cancer treatment are important to your continued recovery and quality of ...
called LUT014. They found in laboratory models that the therapy induces paradoxical MAPK activation of skin cells and offsets the negative effects of EGFR inhibitors. The cancer is being inhibited by the EGFR inhibitor, but the cream is letting the skin go back to normal by activating this pat...
Side effects from cancer treatment can affect a patient’s quality of life, but CURE offers its readers content from experts on how to best manage them.