Ward Cheskey follows up routinely with his oncologist, Heidi McKean after being diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2023.

Most people receive chemotherapy intravenously, which means directly into a vein. Although IV chemo is effective, it can also be painful due to the insertion of needles and IV ports. The ...

Barclay Missen had resigned himself to hospice care.Missen, a 53-year-old from Chicago, got diagnosed with stage IV ...

Medicare covers prescribed chemotherapy drugs. How and where a person receives chemotherapy helps determine which Medicare part provides the coverage. When a person receives a cancer diagnosis ...

or chemo, means using chemicals for treatment. For cancer, the medicines attack and kill fast-growing cells, like cancer cells. You may get pills, shots, or intravenous (IV) chemo. It has side ...

The updated guidelines note that patients with stage IV NSCLC who have EGFR exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R substitutions can receive osimertinib plus platinum doublet chemotherapy or amivantamab ...

Your doctor injects the chemotherapy into your bloodstream through a small tube (cannula). This is called intravenous chemotherapy. Occasionally they might inject the chemotherapy straight into the ...

Manitoba's cancer authority has stopped using an infusion pump line — made by a company whose IV pumps have been the subject ...