Oral mucositis is a common side effect of both chemotherapy and radiation that patients find distressing, yet there are interventions that seem to help.

Laboratory tests performed on patients receiving chemotherapy often fall outside normal parameters, necessitating modifications to the plan of care.

Cancer patients often experience respiratory complications, whether related to the malignancy or treatment with radiation to the chest area or chemotherapy.

A cancer patient was detained for four hours by immigration officials in the US because one of his cancer drugs had caused his fingerprints to disappear.

Long-term survival in prostate cancer patients can be predicted by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) values at 2 years posttreatment, say researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Low levels of vitamin D has been linked to poor prognosis in patients with aggressive lymphoma, according to a new study presented at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans in December.

High intake of sweetened beverages may be associated with an increased risk for breast cancer recurrence among women previously treated for early-stage disease, say researchers who presented their finings at the Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference in Houston in December.

Scientists have improved a method for bone marrow transplantation from mismatched donors that would help restore the immune system quicker, according to findings presented at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans in December.

Multiple myeloma patients experience high response rates when treated with a drug regimen consisting of 3 drugs, according to data presented at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans in December.

Women at risk for breast cancer are unwilling to accept the potential harms of tamoxifen in order to reduce their chances of breast cancer, say researchers who published their study in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2009 Nov 12 [Epub ahead of print]).