Some cancer drugs can cause tiredness (fatigue). But there are things you can do and people that can help.
Doctors use many types of drugs to treat cancer. But some cancer drugs can make you feel very tired and low on energy. This is also called cancer fatigue.
You might find that your tiredness goes on for most of the time. And that resting does not help you to feel better. As a result, it affects your quality of life on many levels as you can’t do your usual activities.
Cancer tiredness is the most common side effect of cancer treatment. It affects between 25 and 99 out of every 100 people (25 to 99%). Some people taking cancer drugs say that severe tiredness is the most disruptive side effect of all.
Cancer drugs that can cause tiredness are:
Other factors that can cause cancer tiredness are:
Even if a drug can cause tiredness, it may not affect you that way. Drugs affect people in different ways and it is not possible to tell in advance who will feel very tired. It depends on:
Tiredness often happens as a group of symptoms, for example:
Tiredness can cause any of the symptoms below, but they can also be due to other things. Let your doctor know if you have any of these signs:
Tiredness as a result of cancer treatment can be very frustrating.
Some people say it is the most difficult side effect to deal with. It might not go away even after resting or sleeping.
Tiredness can affect you mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Everyday life can be hard work. You might not feel like cooking, cleaning, having a bath or shopping.
With some types of cancer drugs, fatigue may go on for weeks or months after you have finished treatment. Around 30 out of every 100 people (30%) may have fatigue for a few years after cancer treatment. This is called chronic fatigue. Chronic means long lasting.
You and your relatives may underestimate how much tiredness can affect your daily life. Doctors can sometimes overlook it. You might feel that healthcare professionals have left you to cope alone. So, it is important to tell your cancer specialist or nurse if you are very tired and have no energy.
Different drugs cause tiredness in different ways.
Nearly everyone who has chemotherapy has some tiredness.
It can be due to the direct effect of chemotherapy on the body.
But anaemia may also cause tiredness. This is because chemotherapy can stop your bone marrow from making red blood cells for a while. The number of red blood cells gradually starts to go down a few days after you have your chemotherapy drugs. It may stay lower than normal until you finish your treatment. You might feel the most tired when your blood cells are at their lowest (nadir). This is usually 7 to 14 days after treatment.
When the chemotherapy ends, the blood cell levels gradually go back to normal over a few weeks. Your energy levels should return to normal within 6 months to a year after the end of chemotherapy. It can take even longer if you have intensive treatment, such as bone marrow or stem cell transplant.
It is common to feel tired and lacking in energy when taking hormone therapy. The tiredness can be worse when you first start the treatment.
It gradually improves over a few weeks or months.
When you finish taking the treatment, the tiredness usually decreases over a few weeks.
Most people who have targeted cancer drugs or immunotherapy feel tired during their treatment. For some, the tiredness is severe. It may take them a few months to a year to get back to their normal energy levels after the treatment ends.
Bisphosphonates are drugs that help prevent or slow down bone thinning (osteoporosis). They can help to treat some types of cancer that cause bone damage.
Some types of bisphosphonate treatment can cause tiredness, but it is usually mild. You generally go back to your normal energy levels over a few weeks once the treatment ends.
Some painkillers can make you feel sleepy or drowsy when you first have them.
But your body gets used to the drugs over a few days, and then the tiredness usually goes away.
Many people with cancer don’t tell their doctor or nurse about their tiredness. Sometimes people think they just need to get on with it. Despite it being hard sometimes to treat the actual cause of your tiredness, it is still important to tell your doctor or specialist nurse about it. They can try things to help you.
You might have a blood transfusion if you are feeling tired because you are anaemic.
A drug called epoetin (EPO) can help reduce anaemia for some people. EPO is a manmade copy of a hormone called erythropoietin made by your kidneys. It stimulates the body to make more red blood cells and can reduce fatigue.
This drug is not suitable for everyone. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) suggests EPO for women with ovarian cancer. This is if they have had treatment with platinum drugs such as carboplatin or cisplatin.
NICE also says that people with other cancers, who have severe anaemia due to cancer treatment and who can't have blood transfusions, can have EPO.
Your cancer treatment can also stop your bone marrow from making white blood cells for a while. This can make you less able to resist infection. It can also make you feel tired.
Tiredness, depression, anxiety and problems sleeping often appear together in some people.
Researchers think there is a link between cancer tiredness and depression. Sleeping problems, anxiety or depression may make your tiredness worse. But extreme tiredness can also cause emotional distress in some people.
A short course of sleeping tablets might help. It can help to get you back into your sleeping pattern. Your doctor might suggest anti depressants if depression is causing you sleeping problems. You need to take these for a few months to get the most out of them. Most anti depressants take a few weeks to start to work. Talk to your doctor or nurse if you feel depressed.
Sleeping problems, depression and tiredness can be difficult to cope with. But there are things you can do and people that can help.
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Fatigue is often confused with tiredness.
Tiredness happens to everyone -- it's a feeling you expect after certain activities or at the end of the day. Usually, you know why you are tired and a good night's sleep solves the problem.
Fatigue is a daily lack of energy; it is excessive whole-body tiredness not relieved by sleep. It can last for a short time (a month or less) or stay around for longer (six months or longer). Fatigue can prevent you from functioning normally and gets in the way of things you enjoy or need to do.
Cancer-related fatigue is one of the most common side effects of cancer and its treatment. It is not predictable by tumor type, treatment, or stage of illness. Usually, it comes on suddenly, does not result from activity or exertion, and is not relieved by rest or sleep. It is often described as "paralyzing" and may continue even after treatment is complete.
The exact reason for cancer-related fatigue is unknown.
It may be related to the disease itself or its treatments.
The following cancer treatments are commonly associated with fatigue:
Cancer cells compete for nutrients, often at the expense of the normal cells' growth. In addition to fatigue, weight loss and decreased appetite are common.
Decreased nutrition from the side effects of treatments (such as nausea, vomiting, mouth sores, taste changes, heartburn, or diarrhea) can cause fatigue.
Cancer treatments, specifically chemotherapy, can decrease the number of red blood cells, causing anemia. Red blood cells deliver oxygen throughout the body, so when tissues don't get enough oxygen, you can feel fatigue.
Some drugs used to treat side effects such as nausea, pain, depression, anxiety, and seizures can cause fatigue.
Research shows that pain also plays a role in fatigue.
Stress can worsen feelings of fatigue. Stress can result from dealing with the disease and the "unknowns," as well as from worrying about daily accomplishments or trying to meet the expectations of others.
Depression and fatigue often go hand-in-hand. It may not be clear which started first. One way to sort this out is to try to understand your depressed feelings and how they affect your life. If you are depressed all the time, were depressed before your cancer diagnosis, are preoccupied with feeling worthless and useless, you may need treatment for depression.
The best way to combat fatigue is to treat the underlying medical cause. Unfortunately, the exact cause is often unknown, or there may be multiple causes.
Causes of fatigue must be managed on an individual basis. For example, there are treatments that may improve fatigue caused by an under-active thyroid or anemia. The following guidelines may help you combat fatigue.
Keep a diary for one week to identify the time of day when you are either most fatigued or have the most energy. Note what you think may be contributing factors.
Be alert to your personal warning signs of fatigue. Signs may include whole-body tiredness unrelieved by sleep, decreased energy or a lack of energy, mental and emotional exhaustion, inability to concentrate, weakness, or malaise.
There are several ways to combat fatigue by conserving your energy. Here are some suggestions:
Plan ahead and organize your work
Schedule rest
Pace yourself
Address Other Medical Problems
Treating medical problems and symptoms that cause fatigue can also help. Examples include anemia, sleep problems, pain, depression, underactive thyroid, and dehydration.
Cancer-related fatigue is often made worse if you are not eating or drinking enough or if you are not eating the right foods. Maintaining good nutrition can help you feel better and have more energy. Make an appointment with a dietitian. A registered dietitian provides suggestions to work around any eating problems that may be interfering with proper nutrition (such as early feeling of fullness, swallowing difficulty, or taste changes). A dietitian can also suggest ways to maximize calories and include proteins in smaller amounts of food (such as powdered milk, instant breakfast drinks, and other commercial supplements or food additives).
Decreased physical activity, which may be the result of cancer or treatment, can contribute to tiredness and lack of energy. Scientists have found that even healthy athletes forced to spend extended periods in bed or sitting in chairs develop feelings of anxiety, depression, and fatigue.
Regular, moderate exercise can decrease these feelings, help you stay active and increase your energy. Even during cancer therapy, it is often possible to continue exercising. In fact, research has shown that cancer patients who perform a moderate exercise routine have a better quality of life and may have better outcomes.
Here are some exercise guidelines to keep in mind if you have cancer:
Managing stress can play an important role in combating cancer-related fatigue. Here are some suggestions that may help.
If your stress seems out of control, talk to a health care professional.
Although cancer-related fatigue is a common, and often expected, side effect of cancer and its treatments, you should feel free to mention your concerns to your doctors. There are times when fatigue may be a clue to an underlying medical problem.
Other times, there may be treatments to help control some of the causes of fatigue.
Finally, there may be suggestions that are more specific to your situation that would help in combating your fatigue. Be sure to let your doctor or nurse know if you have:
Every year, according to WHO, about half a million women die from breast cancer worldwide. To detect the disease at an early stage, women after 40 years of age are recommended to do a mammogram every year. Elizaveta Angelevich told Poster Daily how she defeated cancer.
My mother had breast cancer four years ago. She herself discovered a tumor in herself - a lump in her chest.
I went to a mammologist in Moscow, and when my fears were confirmed, I immediately went to Germany. I then lived in England, and she did not tell me anything about the illness so that I would not worry. She just said she was moving. For our family, this is nothing special: my mother lived in different countries, traveled a lot for work and pleasure. But then my mother transferred all our property to me. This is where I got worried. "Mom, what happened?" - "I got sick and feel bad, it's hard for me to keep track of things, banking and work, so I rewrite everything for you - figure it out yourself."
Since this disease is different for everyone, doctors do not use the concept of stages. But you can get your bearings: there is an initial stage, when the tumor is up to one centimeter, then, when it is larger, but still without lymph nodes. Then the second A - when one lymph node is involved, the second B - these are two or three lymph nodes. On the third, all the lymph nodes around are affected.
On the fourth, metastases appear. My mother had an object-static condition. Her entire chest was affected.
Chemotherapy worked so well on her that the tumor resolved. After the first operation, only a small piece, where there was a tumor, was removed. The mammary gland was not touched. But then, just in case, they decided to do a second operation, and so that the cancer would not return, they removed the breast and put implants. It seems to me that they are now of such good quality that the person himself does not feel the difference.
My mother has recovered. Before her illness, she controlled everything: God forbid to drink an extra glass of wine, God forbid to oversleep a workout at 7 in the morning. She never allowed herself to deviate from the regime, to eat too much. Now she is completely different - much more relaxed and cheerful, she wants to go everywhere and see everything.
Mom started taking me for regular examinations, and once every six months I did an ultrasound.
Then I didn’t like it, but now I think that every person should be examined.
Last year, during one of the examinations, I was found to have a tumor. Small, about one centimeter. They did a biopsy - this is when they pierce the chest with a syringe and take a puncture from the tumor. In the conclusion that the laboratory wrote, there were tumor cells, but it is not clear what type. Mom thought that the Russian laboratory was mistaken. We went to Germany. They did a mammogram. The doctor said that at my age (then I was 25 years old) it was impossible for me to have cancer, but benign tumors are the norm. We relaxed and forgot about it for two months.
At that time, I was planning a trip around the world - saving money for a year, I found a volunteer organization where I was supposed to teach English. Five days before the flight, when I had already packed my suitcase, my mother asked me to come to Germany again for an examination - for her peace of mind. The tumor has already grown, the cancer has gone to the lymph nodes.
The doctor said that everything looked very bad, that he needed to be treated.
When they say that you have cancer, the first feeling is that everything is sinking inside, the world has collapsed. But then nothing. I went on a date that same evening to distract myself. Had a great time. Then, when my hair had already fallen out, I said to this boy: “Sorry, I can’t see you, because my hair has already fallen out. Let's see you when they grow up." And we correspond with him once a month, he asks if our date is still valid.
The doctor told me about our plan. There is only one chemo around the world that applies to all breast cancer patients. First, once every three weeks, the so-called EC is a heavy chemistry, you need to go through it four times. Then once a week for three months - taxol. It's already easier. Then they do an operation, fix the effect with radiation. But everything depends on the results. If the chemotherapy does not work, then the course is interrupted and you undergo surgery, they can remove the breast.
The first thing I had to do before starting therapy was to freeze the eggs, because after the treatment there was a risk of remaining infertile. For two weeks I gave myself hormonal injections in my stomach. It doesn't hurt, but it's strange and scary. My eggs - according to sensations - were growing: my stomach was swollen, it was uncomfortable to walk. Then a 15-minute operation - and you're done. After her, in one day I passed all possible tests. They injected me with a contrast fluid and scanned my whole body to see all the cancer cells and whether there are metastases. The tumor was marked with metal staples in order to then monitor how it decreases, and so that, if it resolves from chemistry, to know which part of the tissue to remove during the operation.
Chemo is a drip, but it is not injected into a vein on the arm, but through a port - a plastic box in the area of the collarbone - into the vein that goes to the heart. During each procedure, the skin is pierced with a special needle, into which a dropper is already inserted.
Therefore, the next step was to install the port for me. This is also an operation, under local anesthesia. You are fenced off with a screen so that you do not look and are not afraid, but you can talk with the doctor. He tells you: “Here I am cutting you, now I am looking for a vein to the heart. Oh found it! I put the phone in." And you really really want to talk, because under anesthesia it seems that everything is cool, there are no problems, it’s wonderfully simple.
The next day you come for the first chemo. Thus, it takes about three weeks from diagnosis to treatment, but the clinic tries to do everything as quickly as possible. It even happened to me that one piece of paper was missing for billing, but this did not affect the start of treatment: bring it when you want, pay when you can. The Germans do not require papers and evidence at all - they always go forward. For example, I received a residence permit. I explained to the employee that I needed treatment. He took it in a comradely way: "Oh, you poor thing, let me run away and collect all the papers, since you don't speak German, I'll arrange everything for you, I'll call all the institutions for you and do everything.
" And so it was in everything.
We also chose Germany because, oddly enough, it is cheaper here with an Israeli passport than in Israel. The entire treatment cost around 5,000 euros, and I saved more for my trip. We had money. It would be possible to keep within 20 thousand euros - it would be enough to sell the car.
Do not eat a day before chemotherapy. It is believed that this will make you feel less sick. Although theoretically the only thing that is not allowed during treatment is grapefruit juice (I don’t know why), everything else is for well-being. You want to smoke, you want to drink - whatever you want. You just don't want anything in particular.
The area where everyone comes for chemotherapy looks like a spa: big chairs, candles and aroma lamps. Patients meet at about the same time, everyone is in a good mood, because each chemotherapy is minus one point in the treatment plan, this is closer to recovery.
The girls, mostly, however, all in their 50s and 60s, are discussing who has what symptoms and how they feel.
If you don’t want to sit, then you can walk with a dropper throughout the hospital. Yes, a little nauseous and a muddy head, but nothing supernatural or terrible.
To keep my hair from falling out, I decided to wear a "cooling cap" during chemotherapy. This is a new technology, it is only two years old. The hat is big and connected to all sorts of sensors, so you won't be able to walk with it. You put it on half an hour before chemotherapy and take it off two hours after it ends, that is, you sit in it for about seven hours. This is the worst. It's cold as hell in there, just so cold that it's worse than any pain, anything at all: you can't run or jump to keep warm. You sit and freeze. I did two procedures, and my hair fell out anyway. True, the hat helped my friend, but she couldn’t stand it more than six times.
Two hours after EC, when you have already come home, you feel unrealistically ill. Terrible nausea, but you don’t vomit, your head and muscles hurt a lot, pain relief does not work.
You can't fall asleep. But after a few days everything passes.
A week later menopause begins. The organism considers that it is dying and discards all unnecessary functions - reproductive in the first place. Hot flashes happen: when you are at first unrealistically hot, then unrealistically cold. It's enough.
Taxol started after EC. It is dripped once a week. I came to the clinic, prepared that now, as usual, after the procedure, I would feel bad. But it didn't. No nausea, on the contrary, I want to eat and sleep. After the first taxol, I slept for a day, but then I got used to it and slept like a normal person.
I was always craving bread and sweets. The hunger is terrible, but you can eat immediately on chemistry - and everyone does it. As a result, I lost 10 kg for EC, and gained them on taxol.
My mother believes that a person is obliged to enjoy everything and do what needs to be done. My mother and I are friends, but at the same time I do not need her support.
I don't need support at all - I'm doing just fine on my own. I am always glad to see my friends, I love them very much - someone came to see me almost every weekend. But I don't need someone to sit next to me, look into my eyes and hold my hand. I need to be entertained, well, taken to a bar, for example.
When you're in treatment, you don't constantly think, "Oh my God! I have cancer!" No, you live your normal life, you just come for procedures from time to time. It becomes a habit.
I started treatment in October, and since November I started taking German courses, so I study the language for four hours a day. I also keep a diary in German to practice.
I do a lot of sports, and chemotherapy did not affect my training in any way. Now I'm into CrossFit. The coaches all know that I do chemistry, but if I hadn't said, no one would have noticed. Nothing happens to the muscles, you can get tired faster if you walk around the city all day, but you are not weak, you don’t want to lie down all day.
I just usually wanted to sleep not at 11, but at 9evenings.
Before chemo, I didn't think hair was important. Think they'll grow back. When they fell out, I was even delighted - even though I won’t suffer in a cooling cap, I don’t have to mess with my hair: I put on a hat or a scarf - and it’s good. But after a while it got hard.
For example, when men stopped looking at me as a woman. I'm used to, for example, that I come to a cafe, and there is a young waiter. I told him: "Bring me this." And he told me: "Yes, I'll bring you this quickly and give you candy with coffee." I don't do it on purpose, I communicate like that. And now you are flirting, but there is no backlash. It's a shame.
I wore a hat all the time and I felt that people were looking and thinking: “Why are you wearing a hat?” I bought the wig just a month ago, it's amazing. I didn’t think about it before just because my mother said that it was hot and not comfortable.
Heavier than hair, no eyebrows or eyelashes.
I paint my eyebrows all the time. Without them, or if I remove my makeup at all, I become like ... like I have cancer.
During my treatment I traveled only twice. I went to see a friend in Hannover for Christmas. It was difficult, you are still very tired for traveling. For the New Year, I wanted to go to Munich. But I was told to stay at home, because the level of leukocytes - immune cells - was very low and there was a high risk of catching any disease. I called a friend: “This is how bad I feel. I'm alone for the New Year, everyone will go to Munich, but I won't." He arrived the next day, but the first thing he said was: "I'm so sick, I'll go to the pharmacy, buy an inhaler." Naturally, I got infected.
It is very strange to have cancer. Actually, you know how sick you are, you have been sick a hundred times in your life - you know that a runny nose goes away in a couple of days. And then a week passes, and a runny nose is like on the first day.
Food tastes and smells are also changing.
You stop loving some foods. It seems to me that the brain just does some strange tricks: I once drank fruit tea in chemistry, after that I can’t stand strawberries. It was the same with ginger or my mother's favorite perfume, which I also used to perfume myself with.
I was operated on by the same doctor as my mother. The day before, I passed all the tests, I was again translucent after the injection of a contrast fluid and a wire was also inserted into the lymph node in order to find a way to the tumor during the operation. The wire stuck out from under the armpit - it was inconvenient.
When I was taken out on a gurney to the corridor, every nurse from those who are on chemotherapy (there are only 10-15 of them) came up, hugged me and wished me good luck. In a hospital in Germany, in general, everyone hugs all the time.
After the operation, the entire sports group that I worked with came to me to support me. And the pharmacist, from whom I bought painkillers, sent flowers along with the order.
Classmates from Moscow recorded a video with songs and dances.
After the operation, I have to come for an ultrasound once a month. Now I have a course of radiation - it is done every day for five minutes for six weeks. It reinforces the effect of chemistry. Radiation has no side effects, but you get very tired.
After this is over, I will need to take anti-cancer medicine for five to ten years to keep the cancer from coming back. I will participate in an experiment to test a new drug, and there is a 50% chance that I will be given a placebo.
I am healthy again and now I feel immortal. I want to teach English and work in a kindergarten.
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Cancer is not a death sentence, and the percentage of people who have recovered is increasing every year. But treatment is a real test for the body, which not everyone can handle.
A patient who has gone through chemotherapy needs serious care and attention.
Oncological diseases have a complex classification, as they are divided according to the affected area, severity, origin, distribution location. But even a simple person who does not have a medical education is well aware of such phrases as “malignant formation”, “oncological foci”, “cancer tumor”. These concepts are capable of "knocking the ground out from under anyone's feet", because according to statistics, every Russian family has at least one relative who died of cancer.
Cancer survivors are familiar with the symptoms and first signs of cancer, so they know exactly when to seek help after cancer treatment. Recovery after chemotherapy and other rehabilitation measures do not exclude constant monitoring of the patient's condition in remission.
Help that may be needed after oncology treatment consists not only in caring for the patient and giving him maximum attention, but also in constant monitoring of tests, taking into account the results of the examination.
A survey among women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer showed that one of the symptoms of the return of the disease can be dizziness and nausea. And this can be considered the first need for seeking help after cancer treatment.
It is difficult to say when such a moment will come and whether it will come at all, but recovery after chemotherapy implies such a reaction of the body to the stress experienced. The reason why a patient can and should seek help from a medical institution after cancer treatment is a recurrence or suspicion of it. It is important to remember that any kind of oncological disease, detected at an early stage, can be treated more effectively than a running process.
Healthy cells of the body tend to divide (like cancer cells), therefore, by reducing the growth of oncocells, drugs that are part of chemotherapy also reduce the growth of normal cells. In this connection, the hair follicles lose nutrients, become depleted, break down and soon fall out altogether.
The process of hair loss begins locally, from separate areas, gradually acquiring the scale of diffuse alopecia, which leads to hair loss in whole strands. Everything that may involve recovery after chemotherapy also applies to the care of the scalp and hair.
It is important to know that any procedure to improve the condition of the hair will be effective not earlier than six months after the end of the treatment. Since the recovery of the body after chemotherapy is a long and complicated process, and medications and remedies are selected individually for each patient, you can count on luxurious hair no earlier than two to three years after treatment.
Surprisingly, not all patients lose their hair. This is influenced by various factors:
There are chemical preparations, the use of which practically does not affect the hair follicles.
But there are also more “aggressive” remedies that are capable of leaving the patient practically without hair in a few sessions, and all over the body. As a rule, such drugs leave the patient even without eyelashes and eyebrows, not to mention other parts of the body. Therefore, it is important to carry out recovery after chemotherapy in oncology in a comprehensive manner, not ignoring either the psychological component of health or the aesthetic one.
Since the restoration of the hairline takes a long time, some people use the services of beauty salons to select a wig from natural hair. Of course, this can hardly be called a full-fledged replacement, but nevertheless, it does not require the constant wearing of a scarf or scarf.
Despite the high level of modern medicine, chemotherapy treatment of malignant tumors is not without consequences for the body. Therefore, answering the question “who needs rehabilitation after chemotherapy”, you can answer: “all patients without exception”.
Everyone who has suffered this severe, life-threatening illness needs rehabilitation. The older the patient and the less immunity is preserved as a result of medical manipulations, the more this person needs the help of specialists in rehabilitation after oncology.
Gender-specific cancers carry different types of reconstructive procedures, such as cancer of the genital organs of women (including the breast) and cancer of the genital organs of men. In these cases, a very important aspect of treatment is the help of psychologists. A competent approach to patients who have lost reproductive health should be to create peace of mind and search for solutions to problems associated with the inability to conceive.
There are many people with a shaken state of mind. Almost everyone who gets up from the couch after treatment feels doomed, unnecessary, useless. This state of depression is aggravated by physical well-being. In this regard, recovery after chemotherapy for oncology is one of the stages of treatment, even if the patient has achieved remission.
Chemotherapy is an effective method of fighting cancer cells. But by affecting malignant tumors, chemicals also harm healthy cells that require recovery of the body after chemotherapy. Affecting every part of the body, oncology therapy deals a devastating blow to all organs without exception.
Voice changes from hoarseness to loss of voice (temporary) are also often observed.
The destruction of a malignant formation is too large-scale a process that entails the death of individual healthy cells. That is why rehabilitation after chemotherapy is aimed at the complete recovery of the body.
In order to avoid further inhibition of body cells, the doctor individually approaches the choice of treatment regimen.
One thing is absolutely certain - the goal of such treatment will be the restoration of human organs and systems in the following order:
As you can see, recovery after chemotherapy is necessary, since returning the body to a “working” state means covering part of the way towards the old life.
Due to the fact that many toxins that are difficult to remove from the body get into the blood with chemicals, the process of complete recovery is delayed. Rehabilitation after chemotherapy to a working state in a modern clinic is faster and more efficient than at home.
During treatment, the body suffers losses, so it is important to create conditions for the reverse process. An individually selected rehabilitation treatment scheme gives the patient a chance to return to a full life. In addition, the more effective the technique of the attending physician, the less likely it is to relapse.
The opportunity to start your daily work is a huge step after the illness. If the onset of nausea or dizziness haunts you, even with a rare frequency, then this means that recovery after chemotherapy for oncology is not completed, you cannot go to work with such well-being.
Cancer is one of the most life-threatening conditions for a person.
