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The systems of the body most affected by chemotherapy drugs include visual and semantic memory, attention and motor coordination and executive functioning. [9] [10] These effects can impair a chemotherapy patient's ability to understand and make decisions regarding treatment, perform in school or employment and can reduce quality of life. [10]
Motor and autonomic symptoms are less frequent but possible. Symptoms may start days after the patient receives their first dose of chemotherapy, are dose dependent, and tend to improve after completion of treatment. However, in some cases, symptoms can persist six months or later following the completion of chemotherapy. [8]
Treatment involves elevation of the legs and pressure stockings to relieve swelling along with warm sitz baths to decrease pain. [40] There is a small amount of evidence that rutosides (a herbal remedy) may relieve symptoms of varicose veins in late pregnancy but it is not yet known if rutosides are safe to take in pregnancy. [24]
Chemotherapy-induced acral erythema, also known as palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia or hand-foot syndrome is reddening, swelling, numbness and desquamation (skin sloughing or peeling) on palms of the hands and soles of the feet (and, occasionally, on the knees, elbows, and elsewhere) that can occur after chemotherapy in patients with cancer.
When ataxia is a symptom of an injury, medication or reversible medical condition, it can be improved or reversed by stopping the medication, treating the condition or healing the injury.
Delayed: occurring between 24 hours and 5 days after treatment; Breakthrough: occurring despite prophylactic treatment; Anticipatory: triggered by taste, odor, memories, visions, or anxiety related to chemotherapy; Refractory: occurring during subsequent cycles when antiemetics have failed in earlier cycles
At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC, ready for my second round of chemotherapy. I had only four glorious days with my bob before starting chemo. But even three weeks in, I still had ...
The chemotherapy drug 5-FU can be toxic to some people with cancer. A quick, cheap test can show if chemo is safe for a patient, but few doctors order it. ... a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher ...