Articles About Cancer Treatment Side Effects

1. How Blood Test Results Can Affect Chemotherapy

   Article - Blood test results and chemotherapy. When undergoing chemotherapy, a lot hinges on the blood test results that precede each chemotherapy session.

2. Hand-Foot Syndrome: A Common Side Effect of Breast Cancer Treatment

   Article - Hand-foot syndrome is a common chemotherapy side effect of chemotherapy for breast cancer, but there are ways to prevent and treat this painful inflammation of the skin.

3. Neuropathy and Chemotherapy: What You Can Do

   Article - Chemotherapy can cause neuropathy, the medical term for nerve damage. Here's what you can do to prevent and minimize neuropathy and nerve damage.

4. Understanding Low White Blood Cell Counts

   Article - White blood cells are the body's best defensive weapons in the fight against germs and disease, so when white blood cell counts drop as a result of chemotherapy, radiation treatment, or certain types of cancer, it puts the patient in a vulnerable position...

5. Managing Treatment for Low Platelets

   Article - Low platelets or thrombocytopenia is a common side effect of chemotherapy or radiation. Learn how to effectively manage low platelet treatment.

6. Managing Treatment for Low White Blood Cell Count

   Article - When someone's white blood cell count is low, his immune system isn't as strong as usual and he's at increased risk of infection, a condition known as neutropenia. The lower his white blood cell count is -- and the longer it stays low -- the higher the risk that he'll get sick or contract some type of infection...

7. Coping With Hair Loss From Cancer Treatment

   Article - Hair loss from cancer treatment is a difficult issue for many patients. This article offers guidance to help them cope.

8. Cancer Treatment and Nausea: What You Can Do

   Article - Chemotherapy is the number one cause of nausea in cancer patients. The first step to preventing nausea is to take the threat of nausea seriously.

9. Cancer and Mouth Sores

   Article - Learn how cancer chemotherapy can produce mouth sores in cancer patients, and how to help prevent mouth sores for loved ones undergoing cancer treatment at Caring.com.

10. 12 Ways to Cope With "Chemo Brain"

    Article - Strategies for helping someone who's being treated for cancer with issues of memory, concentration, and organization.

11. Chemotherapy and Hair Loss: All Is Not Lost

    Article - Find out which chemotherapy drugs cause complete hair loss and how to use wigs and scarves to help you cope with chemo drug induced hair loss.

12. Understanding Low Platelets

    Article - Why chemotherapy, radiation, and some cancers lower platelet counts, and how a low platelet count might affect treatment.

13. Chemotherapy and Mouth Sores

    Article - Mouth sores are one of the most common side effects of chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. Learn how to prevent, treat, and reduce the pain of chemo mouth sores.

14. Managing Low Red Blood Counts

    Article - How to help someone cope with fatigue, weakness, dizziness, and other symptoms of anemia due to a low red blood cell count.

15. What I Wish I'd Known Before Beginning Chemotherapy

    Article - What should you expect during chemotherapy? Even doctors don't know everything. Read top tips about chemotherapy from cancer patients themselves.

16. How to Deal With Hair Loss From Chemotherapy

    Article - How to deal with hair loss from chemotherapy, including scalp care, shaving, sunscreen, treating hair gently, and protecting eyebrows and eyelashes.

17. Nausea: Helping Someone With Cancer Maintain Appetite and Weight

    Article - An action plan for helping someone with cancer boost his appetite so he can get the nutrition he needs.

18. Understanding Low Red Blood Counts

    Article - Read our cancer and red blood cells article and find helpful red blood cells information at Caring.com.