Marijuana bill highlights. The Senate approved medical marijuana legislation for a second time in two years on Tuesday, and sent the bill back to the House, where a similar version passed in March. The bill would make Pennsylvania the 24th state to legalize a comprehensive and public medical marijuana program.
190 Followers. A. Certain chemotherapy drugs can cause peripheral neuropathy, such as vinca alkaloids (vincristine), cisplatin, paclitaxel, and the podophyllotoxins (etoposide and teniposide). This can occur in patients with and without diabetes.
According to the survey results, 64 percent of those patients stated that they experienced chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) during treatment with this drug. Furthermore, 27 percent of these women who experienced CIPN were later diagnosed with chronic neuropathic pain. In other terms, women who developed CIPN while taking Taxol were three times more likely to be diagnosed later with chronic pain involving neuropathy. According to the studyâs authors, Taxol may lead to neuropathic pain as a result of a tumor-killing cellular mechanism that is also deadly to normal tissue.