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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]
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]
The symptoms can occur anywhere between days to months after administration of the offending medication, depending on the dose and speed of administration. [3] [4] The patient first experiences tingling and/or numbness of the palms and soles. This is followed 2–4 days later by bright redness, which is symmetrical and sharply defined.
Side effects of ABVD can be divided into acute (those occurring while receiving chemotherapy) and delayed (those occurring months to years after completion of chemotherapy). Delayed side effects have assumed particular importance because many patients treated for Hodgkin lymphoma are cured and can expect long lives after completion of chemotherapy.
Symptoms Acute During and immediately after drug administration Vasodilation, hypotension, transient cardiac rhythm disturbances Subchronic 1–3 days post-drug administration Pericarditis-myocarditis Early chronic Less than 1 year after completing anthracycline treatment
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 ...
Cancer pain treatment aims to relieve pain with minimal adverse treatment effects, allowing the person a good quality of life and level of function and a relatively painless death. [27] Though 80–90 percent of cancer pain can be eliminated or well controlled, nearly half of all people with cancer pain in the developed world and more than 80 ...
Oral cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy usually become symptomatic four to five days after beginning treatment, reaching a peak at around day 10, and then slowly improving over the course of a few weeks. Mucositis associated with radiotherapy usually appears at the end of the second week of treatment and may last for six to eight weeks.