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Dyspnea is a subjective experience of difficult breathing or sensation of breathlessness that can occur rapidly and lead to a feeling of impending doom.
Sleep-wake disturbances are actual or perceived changes in night sleep with resulting daytime impairment.
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.
Breakthrough pain is sudden, brief pain that occurs during a period when chronic pain is generally well controlled (typically, controlled with opiods).
Intractable pain or refractory pain occurs when pain cannot be adequately controlled despite aggressive measures.
Gastrointestinal side effects with immunotherapy can manifest as diarrhea, abdominal pain, or melena.
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.
Intervention research regarding chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in adults consist of studies with sample subjects who are at least 18 years old.