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).

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