What side effects of chemo for gastric lymphoma for 78 yrs old can be expected? - chemo and pedicures
My mother was diagnosed with gastric lymphoma stage.doc second is scheduled to start chemotherapy? Will they be able to tolerate the side effects?
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Chemo And Pedicures What Side Effects Of Chemo For Gastric Lymphoma For 78 Yrs Old Can Be Expected?
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The different chemotherapy drugs on the basis of the stage and degree of gastric lymphoma. Since the patient is older than the doctors give up no easy chemotherapeutics and not risk a drug. Second phase of the disease in this age it is difficult to treat. Thus, to decide the oncologist, the drug may be used.
However, side effects will be given the same chemotherapy for any other cancer. The most frequent adverse events --
* Nausea and vomiting
* Loss of appetite
* Hair loss
* Anemia and fatigue
* Infection
* Easy bruising or bleeding
* Sores in the mouth and throat
* Neuropathy and other nerve damage
* Kidney damage
Nausea and vomiting are common, but can usually be controlled by anti-nausea drugs, drinking enough fluids, and avoid spicy foods. Anorexia may undergo due to nausea or forced to treat cancer.
However, they have no choice but to give theTreatment recommended by their oncologists for cancer is still a mystery .-
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