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Coping with Physical & Emotional Changes
 
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    Radiation Therapy Effects
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    Managing Care at Home
    Nutrition for Cancer Patients
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    Anxiety, Fear, and Depression
    Coping with Cancer in Everyday Life
    Coping with Grief and Loss
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Chemotherapy Effects
Side effects from chemotherapy depend on the type of drug you are taking, how much is used, and how long it is taken. Some people may experience few or no side effects. Fortunately, if you experience side effects there are medications and other treatments to help relieve these side effects.
What Is Chemotherapy And How Does It Work?
Chemotherapy is the use of medicines (or drugs) to treat disease. We sometimes call this type of treatment just "chemo."
Thoughts, Emotions, and Chemo
Chemotherapy can bring major changes to your life. It is normal and understandable for you and your family to feel tearful, anxious, angry, or depressed.
Managing Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Before chemo starts, most people worry about whether they will have side effects and, if so, what they will be like.
Chemo Brain
For many years cancer survivors have worried about, joked about, and been frustrated with the mental cloudiness they notice before, during, and after chemotherapy.
Skin Changes Caused by Targeted Therapies
Many newer chemotherapy drugs are targeted therapies, which block the growth and spread of cancer but also cause problems with the skin. Learn what to look for, and how you can reduce the effects of skin changes caused by targeted therapies.
Peripheral Neuropathy Caused by Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy-induced (chemo-induced) peripheral neuropathy may be called CIPN for short. It is a set of symptoms or problems caused by damage to peripheral nerves.
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