Side Effect Management

Halle Moore, M.D., medical oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic, discusses the negative symptoms many breast cancer survivors face, and the treatments that these symptoms were associated with.

Strides have been made in treating chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), but there is still work that needs to be done.

A cancer diagnosis comes served up with a slew of side effects. While many can be anticipated and managed, some cannot. They can crop up unexpectedly and take up residence indefinitely.

Winson Cheung, M.D., medical oncologist at the British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver, discusses the importance of discussing any immunotherapy-related side effects with health care providers.

Because cancer is an invisible disease, most patients can keep it under wraps when out in public, but there are some instances when we need to play 'the cancer card.'

The chemotherapy agent capecitabine causes some patients to lose their fingerprints.

Supriya Mohile, director of the Geriatric Oncology clinic at the University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Institute, explains that when geriatric patients visit their doctors and oncologists, it is important to express their worries and any side effects that they are experiencing.