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Chemotherapy-induced diarrhea is the abnormal increase in stool liquidity and frequency associated with the administration of chemotherapeutic agents.
Radiation-induced diarrhea is seen most often with radiation to abdominal and pelvic fields.
Gastrointestinal side effects with immunotherapy can manifest as diarrhea, abdominal pain, or melena.
Peripheral neuropathy is neurologic dysfunction occurring outside of the brain and spinal cord. It may be caused by cancer, treatment, or both.
Chronic pain persists for three months or more. Cancer-related chronic pain may result from cancer treatment but is most frequently caused by bone metastasis.
These general prevention of infection resources refer to cancer-related or cancer treatment-related infection, not including transplantation.
Patients undergoing transplantation are at high risk for infection with a variety of pathogens at multiple phases in their care.
Intractable pain or refractory pain occurs when pain cannot be adequately controlled despite aggressive measures.
Breakthrough pain is sudden, brief pain that occurs during a period when chronic pain is generally well controlled (typically, controlled with opiods).