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A number of different types of cutaneous reactions that affect the skin, hair, and nails can occur with cancer treatment.
Intractable pain or refractory pain occurs when pain cannot be adequately controlled despite aggressive measures.
Chemotherapy-induced diarrhea is the abnormal increase in stool liquidity and frequency associated with the administration of chemotherapeutic agents.
Cancer-related fatigue may be related to the disease itself or to the cancer treatment. It may be an isolated problem or occur in a cluster of symptoms.
Mucositis is an inflammatory process that affects the mucous membranes of the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract.
Patients receiving standard chemotherapy regimens for solid tumors are at lower risk for development of febrile neutropenia and infection than patients who undergo bone marrow or stem cell transplantation.
These general prevention of infection resources refer to cancer-related or cancer treatment-related infection, not including transplantation.
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.
Acute pain is typically related to diagnostic procedures and cancer treatment and is generally defined as lasting no longer than three months.
Depressive symptoms in people with cancer may be attributed to the diagnosis of cancer or to the side effects of cancer treatment.