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).
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