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  2. Cancer and nausea - Wikipedia

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    Cancer and nausea are associated in about fifty percent of people affected by cancer. [1] This may be as a result of the cancer itself, or as an effect of the treatment such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or other medication such as opiates used for pain relief. About 70–80% of people undergoing chemotherapy experience nausea or vomiting.

  3. Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting - Wikipedia

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    Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a common side-effect of many cancer treatments. Nausea and vomiting are two of the most feared cancer treatment-related side effects for cancer patients and their families. In 1983, Coates et al. found that patients receiving chemotherapy ranked nausea and vomiting as the first and second most ...

  4. Chemoreceptor trigger zone - Wikipedia

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    Chemotherapy is a major cause of emesis, and often can cause severe and frequent emetic responses. This is because chemotherapy agents circulating in the blood activate the CTZ in such a way as to cause emesis. [13] Patients receiving chemotherapy are often prescribed antiemetic medications.

  5. He has stage 4 cancer with no cure. His treatment ended due ...

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    They ended up diagnosis it as bile duct cancer.” Doctors performed surgery to remove the tumor and two-thirds of his liver. After some recovery time, he started chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

  6. Post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment - Wikipedia

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    One study demonstrated that, a year after treatment, the brains of cancer survivors treated with chemotherapy (after surgery) had physically shrunk while those of people only treated surgically had not. [12] Post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment comes as a surprise to many cancer survivors.

  7. After Dad's Cancer Diagnosis, a Family Had Their Stomachs ...

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    After Greg had eight rounds of chemo, as well as the stomach-removal surgery, he was cancer-free for about a year. Then the cancer came back in the peritoneum, the lining of his abdomen.

  8. FOLFOX - Wikipedia

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    Feelings of nausea occur among approximately 7 out of every 10 people (70%) but this can be well controlled with anti-nausea drugs. There are many options available to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Pain in the vein during the infusion of oxaliplatin or folinic acid – This can be managed by decreasing the rate of infusion.

  9. Kate Middleton is cancer free after chemotherapy treatment ...

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    Now she is cancer-free she will likely go through the recovery process which awaits many cancer patients after treatment, which can be a long road. Kate has opened up about her illness in a new ...