#side effects

Palliative care specialists help patients find relief from pain, stress and treatment side effects.

Responders may be able to discontinue immune checkpoint inhibitors after two years with no decrease in survival.

The share of kindergartners receiving the usual round of required vaccines dropped in the 2021-2022 school year.

Women may be more vulnerable to the toxic effects of chemotherapy if they are treated in the morning.

The longstanding racial gap in stroke death rates between Black and white Americans widened significantly.

Cancer insight by Talaya Dendy, a board-certified patient advocate, cancer doula and podcaster. She’s also a Hodgkin lymphoma thriver.

Approved for CLL and SLL—types of leukemia and lymphoma—Brukinsa caused fewer heart-related side effects in trials.

Cannabidiol oil and a placebo had similar effects for cancer patients receiving palliative care.

Research at #ASH22 calls into question longstanding assumptions and charts a path for gentler therapies.

Expert panel recommends complementary approaches including acupuncture, yoga and massage, but more research is needed.

After treatment for multiple myeloma, Bryon Daily pays it forward to other African Americans, who are at higher risk for this cancer.

Compared with men, women had a 34% greater likelihood of adverse events, especially if they received immunotherapy.

However, older people were more likely to experience adverse events, especially if they used ribavirin.

The largest peer-reviewed study of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine in cancer patients finds no more, and no different, side effects.

On average, the first vaccination dose was associated with a 0.71-day increase in cycle length and the second dose with a 0.91-day increase.

Lymphedema is a common side after breast cancer surgery, particularly for women who undergo armpit lymph node removal.