neuropathy
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When severe enough, neuropathy can be debilitating and force oncologists to lower the dosage of chemotherapy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
"In other words, is this a risk factor for other types of sensory neuropathy?"
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2025
Van Halen was diagnosed with neuropathy in his legs a few years ago and no longer plays drums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
Mr Lowe, from Omagh, said the small fibre neuropathy affected his entire body, from toes to fingertips.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2024
More commonly, perhaps, neuropathy exhibits itself in an undue tendency to show signs of fatigue upon exertion of any sort, mental or physical.
From The Nervous Child by Cameron, Hector Charles
In the 1940s, some people with vitamin B12 deficiency given very high doses of folic acid to treat anemia developed irreversible neuropathies.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2021
Surgical scars, lost body parts and hair, chemically induced fatigue, radiological burns, nausea, hormone-blocking medications, numbness from neuropathies, weight gain or loss, and anxiety hardly function as aphrodisiacs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2018
Patients dealing with lymphedema or neuropathies, the loss of a limb or postoperative pain may resign themselves to these distressing conditions as an unfortunate but inevitable price that had to be paid for life.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2015
Whose chemo resulted in kidney damage or neuropathies?
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012
A number of friends who have either Raynaud’s or neuropathies associated with diabetes have tried it as well with great success!
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2010
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