Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: underreported and underappreciated.
Chemotherapy-induced neuropathy is one of the most serious non-life-threatening side effects experienced by patients receiving this group of pharmaceutical agents. Although frequently reversible, some patients may remain with symptoms for the remainder of their lives. Early recognition that "numbness and tingling" in the hands and feet of a patient receiving chemotherapy is due to the antineoplastic drug, with subsequent dose reduction or discontinuation of the offending agent, may prevent the development of serious neurologic dysfunction.
Markman
Maurie
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University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Mail Box #121), 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA. mmarkman@mdanderson.org
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents