John Byrd, MD, co-leader of the Leukemia Research Program at the OSUCCC – James, and others here have developed two recently FDA-approved oral chemotherapy drugs, ibrutinib and acalabrutinib ...

Mercaptopurine oral suspension is indicated for the treatment of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia as part of a ...

Temozolomide (TMZ) is a widely prescribed chemotherapy drug used post-surgery and radiation to slow cancer progression. Many patients are unaware that oral chemotherapy like Temozolomide is ...

It can be frustrating for doctors because oral chemotherapy is becoming the first ... guarantee the mandate won't skyrocket costs for the drug. The ACS said it has given her everything she's ...

APL was once a highly fatal disease, with up to 30% of patients dying early from complications. Traditional treatments often included bone marrow transplants, which are expensive, highly toxic, and ...

Earlier this year, physician Edward Greeno discovered that one of his patients had missed a dose of capecitabine, the oral chemotherapy drug he had prescribed to treat her colorectal cancer. But he ...

⁵ The vasoconstriction also limits the delivery of cytotoxic drugs to the oral tissues rendering them less susceptible to chemotherapy-induced damage. Oral cryotherapy includes the use of ice ...

Currently there is no intervention that completely prevents chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis ... results of a single small trial, this drug should be reserved for patients not responding ...

The technology combines the chemotherapy drug capecitabine ... dose and type of oral chemotherapy taken. This information, as well as data on rest, activity, and resting heart rate, can be ...