Chemo Drug is a Killer, Cancer Specialists Warn

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Chemo drug is a killer, cancer specialists warn

Published on Sunday, July 12, 2009

by Healthy News Service

 

A common chemotherapy

drug may be a killer – and is even killing patients who were free of

cancer, and who may have had many years of life ahead of them,

oncologists fear.

Many cancer patients

are hypersensitive to the chemotherapy drug Cremophor-based paclitaxel,

and some fatally so. Around 287 cases of hypersensitivity, and 109

deaths, have been reported, but as just 1 per cent of reactions are

ever recorded, the true picture is far worse.

Cremophor is a chemical solvent, and experts suspect that people are reacting to it.

Two of the fatalities

were women who had been successfully treated for early-stage breast

cancer, and had been given the chemotherapy to stop the cancer

returning.

(Source: 45th annual meeting, American Society of Clinical Oncology).

Provided by What Doctors Don't Tell You on 7/12/2009

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as featured at The Best Years in Life Healthnews

Chemo drug is a killer, cancer specialists warn

Published on Sunday, July 12, 2009

by Healthy News Service

 

A common chemotherapy

drug may be a killer – and is even killing patients who were free of

cancer, and who may have had many years of life ahead of them,

oncologists fear.

Many cancer patients

are hypersensitive to the chemotherapy drug Cremophor-based paclitaxel,

and some fatally so. Around 287 cases of hypersensitivity, and 109

deaths, have been reported, but as just 1 per cent of reactions are

ever recorded, the true picture is far worse.

Cremophor is a chemical solvent, and experts suspect that people are reacting to it.

Two of the fatalities

were women who had been successfully treated for early-stage breast

cancer, and had been given the chemotherapy to stop the cancer

returning.

(Source: 45th annual meeting, American Society of Clinical Oncology).

Provided by What Doctors Don't Tell You on 7/12/2009