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Other Side Effects

Overview

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Cancer treatment is also related to other, less common side effects. As with other side effects, not all people receiving the same treatment will experience the same side effects. Whether a side effect occurs depends on many factors, including your age, overall health, type of cancer, and drug or radiation dose. It is important to talk to your doctor or nurse about these side effects as soon as you experience them so that treatment can begin early. Early treatment reduces the risk of the side effect becoming serious.

Clinical Trials

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Oncologists continue to explore ways to decrease the likelihood of cancer treatment-related side effects and to discover new ways to manage them. More effective prevention and treatment strategies will help to enhance the quality of life for you and other people with cancer. If you have side effects of cancer treatment, consider enrolling in a clinical trial. A clinical trial will provide you with the best available care for your side effect, and your participation will help get new treatments into practice more quickly. Ask your doctor or nurse about clinical trials that may be available for your side effect. You can look for clinical trials yourself by visiting the National Cancer Institute’s searchable database of clinical trials at www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/search. (For type of trial, select “supportive care.”) You can find links on this site to more information about clinical trials.

More Information

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Books:

Coping with Chemotherapy: Compassionate Advice and Authoritative Information from a Chemotherapy Survivor. Nancy Brunin. New York, NY: Avery (Penguin Group), 2002.
Living Well with Cancer - A Nurse Tells You Everything You Need to Know about Managing the Side Effects of Your Treatment. Katen Moore, Libby Schmais. New York, NY: Perigree (Penguin Putnam), 2002.
Managing the Side Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy. Marilyn J Dodd. San Francisco: University of California, San Francisco Nursing Press, 2001.
100 Questions & Answers about Cancer Symptoms and Cancer Treatment Side Effects. Joanne F Kelvin, Leslie B Tyson. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2005.
The Chemotherapy & Radiation Therapy Survival Guide (Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy Survivor’s Guide). Judith McKay, Nancy Hirano. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 1998.