Since the 1950s a chemotherapy drug known as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) has been used to treat many types of cancer, including blood cancers and cancers of the digestive tract. Doctors have long believed ...

A new case report was published in Volume 12 of Oncoscience on December 23, 2025, titled “Silent toxicity: A rare case of 5-fluorouracil-induced hyperammonemic encephalopathy.” ...

Cancer treatment has always been a balancing act—hit the tumor hard enough to kill it, but not so hard that the patient breaks first. For decades, chemotherapy has walked that razor’s edge, saving ...

Omitting bolus 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) from combination chemotherapy for gastrointestinal (GI) cancers did not adversely affect survival and was associated with less toxicity, a review of a large ...

The comparative efficacy of surgical excision, 5-fluorouracil, and methylaminolevulinate photodynamic therapy for the treatment of Bowen disease was examined.

June 17, 2009 (Orlando, Florida) — There is now an antidote for clinicians to use in the event of an overdose of the commonly used chemotherapy 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), according to a poster ...