What are the major side effects of her chemotherapy and radiation therapy?
What will be an ideal response?
• Chemotherapy side effects:
- Neutropenia
- Thrombocytopenia
- Anemia
- Diarrhea
- Nausea/vomiting
- Dysgeusia
- Xerostomia
- Mucositis
- Alopecia
- Some are cardiotoxic, neurotoxic, and/or nephrotoxic
• Radiation therapy side effects:
- Side effects depend on the area of the body being irradiated
- Nutritional effects are not expected unless the esophagus is affected, which may include:
Mucositis, xerostomia, odynophagia
- Late effects may include pneumonitis, lymphedema, other malignancies, and brachial plexopathy
- Fatigue
- Anorexia
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