Chemo Pump Side Effects

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Chemo pump side effects.

Chemo can damage healthy cells in your digestive system bone marrow and mouth. You may or may not have side effects from chemo. Maybe they think if we don t talk about side effects too much we won t experience as many or they won t be as bad. Particularly for colon cancer metastases to the liver there is evidence for a higher response rate in patients.

Reputable sites such as cancer net the breastcancer org and national cancer institute have general information about side effects most commonly experienced with chemo. This comes with fast and hard pounding heartbeat heart palpitations shortness of breath dizziness exertion and fatigue. Blood transfusions are given for patient to continue on with their chemotherapy treatment. As chemotherapy progresses many patients experience significant hair loss and some develop painful sores inside the mouth.

Internal chemotherapy pumps are sometimes used to treat patients with liver cancer. Chemo may also attack your hair follicles. By administering the chemotherapy directly into the liver we can use a much higher concentration of the chemotherapy with fewer systemic side effects. A little more discussion might be in order.

The dangers here are also too risky to carry on without needed transfusion. Benefits of intrahepatic pump therapy fewer side effects.