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All cancer drugs have side effects, but they don’t affect everyone. The reasons why drugs cause sickness are complex. Sickness and being sick involve processes in the: brain and spinal cord (central nervous system) stomach. small bowel. It's not possible to tell in advance who will feel or be sick or how bad it will be.
The main side effects from chest radiotherapy include: difficulty swallowing. sickness. weight loss. breathlessness. lymphoedema after breast cancer treatment. breast changes and problems moving your arm and shoulder. heart problems. You may also experience more general side effects of radiotherapy such as sore skin and tiredness.
Help for you. It can feel very overwhelming trying to cope with feeling sick from advanced cancer. Talk to your doctor if your symptoms are not improving with help. For emotional help and support, you can talk to the Cancer Research UK Nurses on freephone 0808 800 4040. Lines are open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Some cancer treatments cause sickness. The treatments most likely to cause sickness are: chemotherapy. radiotherapy. targeted cancer drugs. You feel sick because the vomiting centre in your brain has been triggered. Some cancer drugs act directly on the vomiting centre. Others stimulate nerves in your digestive tract.
Cancer itself could cause you to feel or be sick. There are many different reasons why. These include: chemicals made by the cancer. tumours blocking the digestive system. too much calcium in the blood. having a slow gut. emotional effects. raised pressure from a brain tumour.
Trabectedin (Yondelis) Trabectedin is the name of a chemotherapy drug. It is also known as Yondelis. It is a treatment for: soft tissue sarcoma that has spread to other parts of the body (advanced cancer). It is for people who have already had treatment with, or are unable to have, ifosfamide and an anthracycline chemotherapy such as doxorubicin.
Cancer tiredness is one of the most common side effects of cancer treatment. It affects between 15 and 90 out of every 100 people (15 to 90%). Tiredness in advanced cancer affects around 75 out of every 100 people (75%). Some people taking cancer drugs say severe tiredness is the most disruptive side effect.
The main side effects from abdominal or pelvic radiotherapy include: diarrhoea. sickness. weight loss. bladder problems. pain. changes to your sex life and fertility. You may also experience more general side effects of radiotherapy such as sore skin and tiredness. Read more about the general side effects of radiotherapy.
metoclopramide. haloperidol. ondansetron. levomepromazine. cyclizine. Your district nurse can also give you injections of anti sickness medicine into the layer of fat just under your skin, once or twice a day. This is also called a subcutaneous injection. Or you can have the medicine through a small plastic tube taped to the skin, so you don't ...
Sickness that starts a day after treatment. Sickness that starts more than 24 hours later is called delayed onset nausea and vomiting. It is most common with the drugs: carboplatin. cisplatin. cyclophosphamide. doxorubicin. It is also more likely with high dose chemotherapy. It might last up to a week after you had your chemotherapy.