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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Four in every 10 cancer patients treated with chemotherapy develop severe peripheral nerve pain, a new evidence review suggests. These patients might ...

Four in every 10 cancer patients treated with chemotherapy develop severe peripheral nerve pain, a new review suggests.

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The first patient has been dosed in a phase 2b trial evaluating the first-in-class agent Halneuron for those with neuropathic pain following chemotherapy.

Four in every 10 cancer patients treated with chemotherapy develop severe peripheral nerve pain, a new review suggests.

“Chemo belly” is a grouping of several side effects of chemotherapy drugs on the gastrointestinal (GI) tract that some people experience during and after treatment.

Stabbing, burning or tingling pain can be chronic in cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy. A new study found that 4 in 10 patients get persistent and severe nerve pain from the cancer treatment.

Worldwide, cancer chemotherapy is linked to persistent severe peripheral nerve pain (neuropathy) for around 4 in every 10 patients treated with these drugs, suggests a pooled data analysis of the ...

Platinum-based or taxane chemotherapy drugs appear to pose the greatest risk for nerve pain, and lung cancer patients seem to have the highest rates of neuropathy, results show.