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Cancer is the twentieth century greatest enemy of all besides AIDS. Very many people lose their beloved ones to this illness and very many are still struggling with chemotherapy treatment as it is followed by the people they love. Knowing what cancer patients go through during chemotherapy is very difficult but reading about it may shed a bit of light on how to help and comfort these patients. To start with, chemotherapy side effects are aspects that patients dread most.

There are very numerous side effects, and their extent and intensity vary according to the length of the treatment and the type of drugs involved. Most chemotherapy side effects are temporary and they decrease in intensity and eventually stop after a certain period of time. It seldom happens for some adverse reactions to persist for several years after the cessation of the treatment.

If you were interested in learning more about the chemotherapy side effects of various drug combinations or treatments, the number of sources where you can get information from is really high. The list with potential chemotherapy side effects is about 200 items long and it includes such effects as abdominal pain, dizziness, nausea, chills, cardio-toxicity, edema, eye problems, lack of appetite, weight gain or loss, memory loss, leukemia, infections of various types in various parts of the body, nose bleeds, pulmonary embolus, pneumonia, rapid heartbeat, water retention, and so on. It could prove very discouraging for one to go through the entire list, wondering how many of these could become manifest. They are each specific to a certain type of cancer and are definitely related to the type of drug or combination of drugs that the doctor has recommended as treatment.

Normally, patients should be informed by their doctors on the possible chemotherapy side effects and their persistence at the end of the treatment. Explaining what the patient will go through constitutes an essential preparatory stage as this will a negative psychological reaction on the part of the patient. Most often, doctors come up with several treatment schemes and present their to their patients with the pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages.

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