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Articles That Discuss side effects ID and prevention

Foot Bath Detox and Cancer

Can you take a foot bath detox? You can take one and I can tell you that they feel great. I received this therapy at an alternative doctor’s office a few years back. The best part of the foot bath

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Anthracycline Therapy- Late Cardiomyopathy

Our patients with early cardiac symptoms improved transiently but decompensated later and patients with no early symptoms developed cardiac symptoms more than 10 years after anthracycline therapy. Anthracycline

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Rosemary Oil- Cognitive-Enhancer?

I underwent aggressive chemo in 1995 to try to manage a diagnosis of a type of blood cancer called multiple myeloma. My induction chemo and autologous stem cell transplant didn’t help but left me

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Chemotherapy-Induced Neurotoxicity

“The prevalence of chemotherapy-induced neurotoxicity (CIN) varies from 19% to more than 85%, with the highest reported for platinum compounds (70–100%) and taxanes (11–87%) ). However, most

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Cancer-related Fatigue Therapies

Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a common complaint for those patients undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiation. I understand that my personal cancer experience may not be universal but I don’t believe

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Mistletoe Extract as Cancer Therapy

Is mistletoe extract (ME) an anti-cancer therapy or an anti-side effect therapy? Or both? ME is one of those complementary therapies that often asked about in some of the online groups that I monitor. According

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Chemotherapy-induced Diarrhea

Chemotherapy-induced Diarrhea. A side effect so common that it is expected and almost taken for granted. Yet, like most other short-term side effects that resolve once chemo stops, according to research,

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Early-Onset Cancer- Survivors, Self-Mgmt?

Early-onset cancer diagnoses, defined as cancer occurring in people ages 18-49, has increased more than 79% since 1990. Deaths due to these early-onset cancer diagnoses rose 27.7% since 1990. According

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Cancer Survivors have Older Hearts :-(

Cancer survivors (CS) have older hearts because most CS’s undergo chemotherapy. Chemotherapy that ages the person and ages the person’s heart. We all learn this in grade school but I’ll

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) & Cancer

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in cancer patients being diagnosed with an “incurable” cancer,  undergoing aggressive therapies like a hematopoitic stem cell transplant and then having

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Pre-Cancer- OverDiagnoses, OverTreatment?

Even the word pre-cancer can be terrifying. I read the fear in newly diagnosed patients writing in online groups daily. Let’s face it. The word cancer strikes fear into all who are diagnosed with

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Chemo, Radiation = DNA Damage = Side Effects

“The drugs administered cause DNA damage of cancer cells, making them unable to survive. However, the treatment also damages the DNA of healthy cells, which leads to long-term side effects…” DNA

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