Open AccessUncommon adverse effects of commonly used chemotherapeutic agents in medical oncology practice: A series of two cases of hand-foot syndrome
Author(s) -
Waseem Dar,
Mir Hussain,
Sheikh Aejaz Aziz,
Gul Mohammad,
Burhan Wani,
Muzamil Latief
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of medical and paediatric oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 0975-2129
pISSN - 0971-5851
DOI - 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_70_16
Subject(s) - medicine , chemotherapeutic drugs , chemotherapy , foot (prosody) , lung cancer , adverse effect , cancer , intensive care medicine , oncology , cancer chemotherapy , dermatology , philosophy , linguistics
Chemotherapy has an increasing potential for cure and palliation of most forms of cancer in different stages. However, its use is associated with a multitude of side effects some very common and few very rare. We present two patients of metastatic nonsmall lung cancer who had severe forms of hand-foot syndrome with two different classes of antineoplastic drugs and have to discontinue chemotherapy.