Chemotherapy treatment can cause not only short term side effects but also some long term side effects that persist for several months and years later. Tiredness and lack of stamina is one of the long term effects. Radiotherapy to the neck can cause under-active thyroid function sometimes years later, which is characterised by tiredness and [...]
Intrathecal chemotherapy is one way of chemotherapy in spinal canal. Intrathecal chemotherapy is given to treat certain types of cancer. Intrathecal chemotherapy is given by an intralumbar injection. This is when a needle that has chemotherapy in it is put into the spine. Intrathecal chemotherapy can also be given into a ventricle in brain. This [...]
Chemotherapy treatment causes fall out of hair because the drug that is being used to kill the cancer also destroys the delicate cells that are at the base of the hair bulb and are the growing cells of the hair. Hair fall is a necessary evil and without that happening, the cancer cells can not [...]