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Chemotherapy is a common contributor to peripheral neuropathy, and because of this, there have been efforts to both prevent and treat chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). However, much of the work in this field has been hampered by difficulty in measuring this, as well as trials that are pretty small.
A couple have been the subject of [...]
Peripheral neuropathy is a common complication of multiple widely used chemotherapy agents, and this symptom often limits our ability to have patients continue on the same treatment, even when it’s effectively treating the cancer. Typically, the symptoms are more sensory than motor, and the leading complaints are numbness and tingling, cold sensitivity, sometimes burning, [...]
2 CommentsNeuropathy, also known as peripheral neuropathy, is a common medical problem caused by damage and dysfunction to one or more peripheral nerves, which are the nerves connecting the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body. There are three different types of nerves: sensory, motor, and autonomic (controlling reflexive/automatic body processes like blood [...]
0 CommentsIn reviewing posts from GRACE, it’s not surprising to see that pain is major issue for many patients with cancer. Pain is not unique to cancer, but for most patients with cancer, their pain is related to the cancer in some way. In cancer, the causes of pain not only include the disease itself, [...]
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