Certain chemotherapy drugs, notably capecitabine, can cause a side effect known as palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia (hand-foot syndrome), a painful swelling and inflammation of the hands and feet ...

The study covered in this summary was published on Research Square as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. PLD is a key drug for platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer but the risk for ...

ORLANDO—Patients with metastatic renal cell carcincoma (RCC) who develop hand-foot syndrome (HFS) while being treated with sunitinib may have better progression-free survival and overall survival than ...

European Union (EU) vs. non-EU (NOEU) countries study compliance: the experience of the phase III FLORENCE study testing febuxostat in the Tumor Lysis Syndrome (TLS) prevention. This is an ASCO ...

Hand-foot syndrome (HFS) is a dose-limiting side effect of capecitabine. Celecoxib prevents HFS by inhibiting cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) that is upregulated because of the underlying associated ...