Side Effect Management

A physical therapist offers tips and exercises that can help patients with cancer who experiencing difficulty walking from either the disease or its treatments.

A doctor explains how oncology palliative care can be lifesaving for patients with cancer.

Questions about whether scalp cooling is painful and how long sessions last were answered by an expert during an interview with CURE®.

For certain patients with cancer, scalp cooling to reduce chemotherapy-related hair loss may be a beneficial option.

We asked oncology experts what questions patients should ask their doctors soon after receiving a cancer diagnosis. This is their advice.

I get upset when I read something thinking it’s true and then find out later it isn’t, especially when it’s something important regarding cancer or lymphedema.

With breast neurotization after receiving a mastectomy, breast cancer survivors may be able to mitigate post-mastectomy chest numbness over time.

Patients can seek a licensed acupuncturist who may be able to help with hot flashes and other endocrine-related side effects, an expert said.

A computer model may help predict which patients with breast cancer are more likely to experience neuropathy from taxane therapies.

For survivors who had received cisplatin chemotherapy, an expert advised routine hearing checks and wearing earplugs in loud places to maintain hearing.

One expert explained the common side effects at every line of treatment for metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer during the CURE® Educated Patient® Metastatic Breast Cancer Summit.

Summer is time to pay particular attention to skin issues, including for patients with cancer undergoing treatments.

When my sister experienced nausea and vomiting during her Hodgkin lymphoma treatment, we tried alternatives that seemed to help.

An Alzheimer’s drug did not have an effect on cognitive function in breast cancer survivors. However, one researcher noted reasons why there is still hope.

After seeing how palliative care helped me through cancer, I now advocate for these services to other patients.

As up to 42% of patients with cancer may be using cannabis, one expert spoke to CURE® to separate cannabis myths from reality.

Before patients receive Enhertu for HER2-positive solid tumors, it’s important to know about the potential side effects.

For patients with lymphoma or multiple myeloma, speaking up about symptoms of cytokine release syndrome can be lifesaving.

A cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia may help cancer survivors, along with ways to manage insomnia via sleep pressure, an expert told CURE®.

The blood pressure medication enalapril did not prevent cardiotoxicity among patients with cancer being treated with chemotherapy.

Compared to other treatments, patients’ testosterone levels return to baseline levels faster following treatment with Orgovyx.

Exercise and physical activity can help patients with advanced breast cancer, especially with quality of life, two experts told CURE®.

Certain patient characteristics may put them at an increased risk for chemotherapy-related kidney injury, recent research found.

Experts from City of Hope explain the importance of symptom management and care planning during cancer.

Musical play engages children with cancer, which relieves stress for them and their parents/caregivers, an expert said.

Certain oral chemotherapies may cause hand-foot syndrome, but reducing the dose of the drug allows it to heal, an expert told CURE®.

During the CURE Educated Patient® Breast Cancer Summit, an expert discussed her professional and personal experience with side effect management in metastatic breast cancer.

It’s key for patients with cancer to avoid certain food items, such as artificial sweeteners, as they increase junk food cravings, an expert said.

An expert gives an overview of common endocrine-related side effects that premenopausal women with breast cancer may experience — and what can be done to address them.

We asked our audience of patients and survivors about their thoughts on the use of cannabis during cancer. Here’s what they had to say.