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Article: Patients anticipate high number of side effects to cancer treatment.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- July 27, 2004
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2004 JUL 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study finds that patients about to undergo chemotherapy or radiation expect a high number of side effects, and that age, gender, educational background and the type of cancer all influence how many side effects a patient expects.
The authors of the study, published July 12, 2004, in the online edition of Cancer said it may help identify patients who may benefit from early side effect management and pretreatment information preparation. A free abstract of the study is available via Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom).
Side effects from chemotherapy or radiation therapy can ...