Lung Cancer Chemotherapy and Its Side Effects
January 27th, 2010 Posted by: admin
For some people with lung cancer, Lung chemotherapy may be effective treatment. The medicines are used to stop the growth of cancer cells. Chemotherapy is generally an outpatient treatment, but depending on drugs used and the patient’s health, a hospital stay may be compulsory. Anyway, it may be given alone or combined with other treatment methods. Side effects can include an increased risk of infection, mouth sores, and a lack of energy, hair loss, and nausea.
In most cases of lungs cancer, chemotherapy medicines are given but injection directly in to a vein or by means of a catheter, a thin tube that is placed in to a large vein and remains there as long as it is needed. Some anticancer medicines are given in the form of pills.
The side effects of lung chemotherapy depend mainly on the medicines and the doses that the patient receives. As with other types of treatment for lung cancer, side effects are totally different with each other.
People may lose their hair and also have many other side effects during chemotherapy. Usually, these side effects go away gradually during the recovery periods between treatment sessions or after treatment are complete.
