A guide on cutting and giving hazardous medicine tablets safely.
Learn how to handle hazardous medicines safely when giving children tablets, capsules or an injectable medicine by mouth.
A guide on giving hazardous medicine tablets or capsules safely.
A guide to dissolve and give whole tablets of hazardous medicine safely.
A guide on cutting, dissolving and giving hazardous medicine tablets safely.
Learn how chemotherapy works with this click-through animation that shows how chemotherapy affects cells in the body.
Chemotherapy may be used to treat some types of brain tumours. Learn general information about how chemotherapy is given, how it works and coping with side effects.
If your child needs acetaminophen or ibuprofen for fever or pain relief, your health-care provider can help you choose the right product for them.
A guide on preparing and giving injectable hazardous medicine safely by mouth.
Learn how to safely give and handle your child's hazardous medicines at home, including preparing the work area and cleaning up supplies.
Cancer treatment requires different types of medication, each of which may be given in a different way. Lean about the most common ways to receive chemotherapy and other medications and what to expect.
A guide on dissolving and giving a portion of a hazardous medicine capsule safely.
Learn the steps for disintegrating mercaptopurine (6-MP) tablets in an oral syringe.
Find out what happens when you receive chemotherapy as an outpatient, either in the hospital or taking medications at home.
A guide on mixing hazardous medicine capsules with liquid or food safely.
Learn how to care for your child at home after a treatment of intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma.
Find out what happens at clinic visits during follow-up treatment when your child is back at home after receiving treatment for a brain tumour.
Cells in the mouth can be affected by chemotherapy and radiation to the head and neck area. Learn how to help your child avoid infection with good mouth care.
Learn about chemotherapy your child receives before the blood and marrow transplant.
Learn what happens during each of the five phases of chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
Learn about possible interactions between cancer treatments and natural health products
Your child needs to take the medicine called cyclophosphamide. This information sheet explains what cyclophosphamide does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
Learn what intra-arterial chemotherapy is and how it is done.
Your child needs to take the medicine called trihexyphenidyl. This information sheet explains what trihexyphenidyl does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.
