Managing Chemotherapy-Induced Hyperuricemia and Gout: Common Medications and Treatment Strategies
We all know that chemotherapy is an effective treatment in killing cancer cells from the body. But, along with it there are a lot of adverse reactions which can be induced by the effect of chemotherapy drugs in our body. One of them is hyperuricemia and gout in the cancer patient who are all receiving the chemo drug. Today, we are going to know about the strategies to manage the chemotherapy-induced hyperuricemia and gout in this article. What is the link between chemotherapy and hyperuricemia and gout? Chemotherapy is a form of cancer treatment which uses drugs to kill or shrink the cancer cells. But when it kills the cancer cell the tumour particle which breaks down at a rapid speed makes the kidney unable to eliminate or flush out it, leading to an acute kidney injury and . This condition can lead to a problem in the uric acid excretion and an elevation in the uric acid level in the blood (hyperuricemia) which in turn leads to gout, a painful form of arthritis caused due to the ac...