Side Effect Management

Although chemotherapy for breast cancer can cause a variety of side effects, there are ways to ease many of them.

Nutrition plays a crucial role in the lives of people with cancer. But more than a million people suffering from the disease in the United States also endure a wasting syndrome called cachexia.

Hypnosis can reduce side effects and stress for patients with cancer, and even substitute for anesthesia during some surgeries.

Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a common — and often costly — problem among patients with cancer.

A new agent will soon be available to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.

From fatigue to chemo brain, Curetoday.com and CURE Magazine offer a variety of resources for people dealing with these effects.

Aromatase inhibitors cause unwanted side effects. More and more women are choosing not to take them, but is this a good idea?

A cancer diagnosis and treatment can take over your whole world. Here are a few ways to reclaim parts of your life and ease some of the emotional stress that cancer brings.

The complex conflict between hating your chemo with the side effects and knowing it is keeping you alive is difficult for patients to grasp.

Sexual intimacy is a subject that is difficult for many breast cancer survivors to discuss. The challenges of sexual intimacy are often created as a direct result of cancer treatments or can occur from the after effects which result in emotional scarring.

Finding relief from the painful condition of lymphedema is a challenge, but there is research that using weights may help.