Four in every 10 cancer patients treated with chemotherapy develop severe peripheral nerve pain, a new review suggests.

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Chemotherapy has been known to cause damage to peripheral nerves, and sometimes the pain is chronic and severe enough that chemotherapy doses are reduced or discontinued. But prior research has not ...

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Worldwide, cancer chemotherapy is linked to persistent severe peripheral nerve pain (neuropathy) for around four in every 10 patients treated with these drugs, suggests a pooled data analysis of the ...

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