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This review describes the variety of mucocutaneous side effects caused by antineoplastic chemotherapy, with emphasis on skin, nails, and mucous membranes, while highlighting potential severity and the possibility of needing to adjust or interrupt treatment in rare cases; it presents no new clinical results.

This abstract discusses research into various interventions like acupressure, massage, and music therapy for managing secondary symptoms such as nausea, pain, and neuropathy. The authors emphasized the need for standardizing these interventions and their outcome measurements.

This study examined current literature and recommendations for preventing and treating skin lesions induced by chemotherapy, highlighting common dermatological issues such as discoloration, pruritus, and alopecia, and noting that specific treatments can alleviate these problems to improve patients' skin integrity, self-esteem, and quality of life.

This retrospective study found a variety of dermatological adverse events associated with antineoplastic treatments, often leading to changes or suspension of cancer therapies in affected patients.

In this study of women with breast cancer, chemotherapy led to temporary alopecia and altered hair characteristics, impacting quality of life, while Tamoxifen showed minimal hair density changes.