scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: Prevention and treatment strategies

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
New evidence strongly suggests that intravenous calcium and magnesium therapy can attenuate the development of oxaliplatin-induced CIPN, without reducing treatment response, and accumulating data suggest that vitamin E may also attenuateThe development of CIPn.
About
This article is published in European Journal of Cancer.The article was published on 2008-07-01. It has received 568 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neurotoxicity: a critical analysis.

TL;DR: This review will address the increasing importance and challenge of chemotherapy‐induced neurotoxicity, with a focus on neuropathy associated with the treatment of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, testicular cancer, and hematological cancers.
Journal ArticleDOI

Mechanisms of Acupuncture-Electroacupuncture on Persistent Pain

TL;DR: Electroacupuncture activates the nervous system differently in health than in pain conditions, alleviates both sensory and affective inflammatory pain, and inhibits inflammatory and neuropathic pain more effectively at 2 to 10 Hz than at 100 Hz.
Journal ArticleDOI

American Cancer Society Colorectal Cancer Survivorship Care Guidelines

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present guidelines to assist primary care clinicians in delivering risk-based health care for colorectal cancer survivors who have completed active therapy, including communication and coordination of care between the treating oncologist and the primary care clinician to effectively manage the long-term care of CRC survivors.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Effects of desipramine, amitriptyline, and fluoxetine on pain in diabetic neuropathy.

TL;DR: Desipramine relieves pain caused by diabetic neuropathy with efficacy similar to that of amitriptyline, offering an alternative for patients unable to tolerate the latter and blockade of norepinephrine reuptake is likely to mediate the analgesic effect of these antidepressant drugs in diabetic Neuropathy.
Journal ArticleDOI

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.

TL;DR: A general predisposition for developing a chemotherapy-induced neuropathy has been observed in nerves previously damaged by diabetes mellitus, alcohol or inherited neuropathy and no drug is available to reliably prevent or cure chemotherapy- induced neuropathy.
Journal ArticleDOI

Chemotherapy-induced neuropathy.

TL;DR: The neurologist managing the cancer patient who develops neuropathy must answer a series of important questions as follows: Are the symptoms due to peripheral neuropathy?
Journal ArticleDOI

Taxol: the first of the taxanes, an important new class of antitumor agents.

TL;DR: This review will discuss several critical issues that will be addressed in future clinical trials, developmental directions, and drug supply, and the results of preliminary investigations with the semisynthetic taxane analog taxotere will also be discussed.
Book

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde
Related Papers (5)