What does ICE stand for in chemotherapy?

First published: March 2013 and regularly updated on the Gov.UK website. Outpatient-based ifosfamide, carboplatin and etoposide (ICE) chemotherapy in transplant-eligible patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Hodgkin’s disease.

What is ICE therapy for cancer?

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination that is used to treat non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphomas that have come back and do not respond to other treatments. It includes the drugs ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide phosphate. Also called ICE.

How effective is ICE chemotherapy?

Event-free survival for patients who achieved a CR after ICE and transplantation is 88% versus 45% for those who achieved a PR. These data confirm the efficacy and tolerability of fractionated ICE chemotherapy as both a salvage and mobilisation regimen that can be readily delivered in an outpatient setting.

What is GDP chemotherapy?

GDP (Gemcitabine, Dexamethasone, and Cisplatin) Is Highly Effective and Well-Tolerated for Newly Diagnosed Stage IV and Relapsed/Refractory Extranodal Natural Killer/T-Cell Lymphoma, Nasal Type – PMC.

Why do they put ICE on hands and feet during chemo?

What are cooling therapies? Cooling therapy is a system used to apply cold to your scalp, hands, or feet while you are having chemotherapy (chemo). It may help reduce problems that some chemo medicines can cause with your hair, skin, and nails. Wearing a cooling cap on your head may help reduce hair loss.

What is ICE medical term?

Listen to pronunciation. An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination that is used to treat non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphomas that have come back and do not respond to other treatments. It includes the drugs ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide phosphate.

Why do they put ice on hands and feet during chemo?

The goal is to reduce the exposure of local tissues to the drug. To protect the scalp, a cold cap on the head is designed to ease hair loss. To protect the hands and feet, frozen gloves and socks are designed to reduce the amount of drug flowing through their vessels, limiting the injury to local peripheral nerves.

What is ICE chemotherapy for Hodgkin?

ICE in the context of chemotherapy is an acronym for one of the chemotherapy regimens, used in salvage treatment of relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma. In case of CD20-positive B cell lymphoid malignancies the ICE regimen is often combined today with rituximab.

What drugs are in R CHOP chemotherapy?

An immunochemotherapy regimen consisting of rituximab, cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin hydrochloride (doxorubicin hydrochloride), vincristine (Oncovin) and prednisone used to treat both indolent and aggressive forms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Why do nails turn black during chemo?

Chemotherapy can disrupt the growth cycles of new cells in your body. The keratin-rich cells that make up your skin and nails can be especially affected by this.

What helps neuropathy in hands from chemo?

In the meantime, symptoms can be treated with:

  • steroids to reduce inflammation.
  • topical numbing medicines.
  • antiseizure medications, which can help relieve nerve pain.
  • prescription-strength pain relievers such as narcotics (opioids)
  • antidepressants.
  • electrical nerve stimulation.
  • occupational and physical therapy.