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Pain and sensory abnormalities can persist for months or years after treatment completion. Some patients may experience “coasting,” where symptoms intensify after completion of treatment. [3] As such, patients can be cancer-free and still suffer from disabling neuropathy induced by cancer treatment. [3]
Now Kate has the ‘all clear’, what will her recovery look like? Many chemotherapy symptoms are temporary, but it can take the body months, for some years, to recover from changes. Most people ...
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]
Progression-free survival (PFS) is "the length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse". [1] In oncology, PFS usually refers to situations in which a tumor is present, as demonstrated by laboratory testing, radiologic testing, or clinically. Similarly ...
London — Catherine, the Princess of Wales, says she's finished her course of chemotherapy and is looking forward to returning to work as she enters a "new phase of recovery" from cancer ...
You may have heard of ‘chemo brain;’ some chemo patients describe experiencing memory problems, difficulty concentrating, and a feeling of mental fogginess during or after chemotherapy.”
For most cancer treatment, about 5–15% of patients get mucositis. However, with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), up to 40% get mucositis, and 10–15% get grade 3–4 oral mucositis. [4] Irinotecan is associated with severe GI mucositis in over 20% of patients. Seventy-five to eighty percent of bone marrow transplantation recipients experience ...
Although I have finished chemotherapy, my path to healing and full recovery is long and I must continue to take each day as it comes," Princess Kate said in part in the message, which was ...