Encyclopedia: Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy refers to drug treatment given to people with cancer prior to surgery. The aim is to reduce the size of the cancer before surgery, thus making surgery easier and more likely to be successful. This chemotherapy is commonly used in cancers that are locally advanced - where an operation is technically planned at a later stage. The use of such chemotherapy can effectively reduce the difficulty and morbidity...
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Cancer After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Is it Really Gone, Zip, Nada, Zilch?
With infiltrating ductal carcinoma, triple negative, does the agressiveness of the condition warrant an agressive...
With infiltrating ductal carcinoma, triple negative, does the agressiveness of the condition warrant an agressive...
All below is based on one thing: the tumor was 6.8 cm diameter, not circumference. There is a rule of surgical oncology that you do not change your initial surgery after...
Asked by Inquiring Minds... - 5 months ago
Water retention after neoadjuvant chemotherapy of foru months. Is this normal?
Swelling in the extremities...as well as under the axilla. Question: What chemo were you on? Answer: Taxotere and...
Swelling in the extremities...as well as under the axilla. Question: What chemo were you on? Answer: Taxotere and...
its been 15 months since my last treatment of chemo and at night my feet swell so do my hands sometimes. its just the effects that the type of chemo...
Asked by Inquiring Minds... - 6 months ago