The side effects of cancer drugs are as numerous as the many different types of cancer.
The side effects of cancer drugs are as numerous as the many different types of cancer. Some of the side effects of these cancer drugs run the gammut from being relatively benign to "life threatening". If you have not already had a conversation with your oncologist about every drug you are taking, I strongly suggest you do. Ask about both the short term as well as long term side effects.
The often heard statement " it wasn't the cancer that killed, it was the chemotherapy" is not uncommon or without foundation. Often, it is not only the side effects of the chemo medicine, but the other medicines to counter balance the chemo medication, that not only can throw your body "out of whack", but can have long term devistating and life threatening side effects.
I am fortunate to be treated at one of the best cancer hospitals in the world and I trust my team of doctors implicitly. If they say "do this" or "take this", I do. However, I do ask what are both the short term side effects of each and every drug. Never do anything blindly.
I know I am a patient first and foremost to my doctors, but I am not foolish enough not to realize that I am also a "case study". During one of my consultations my oncologist mentioned gleefully that one of the doctors was considering writing a paper based on the positive results I experienced with a certain chemo drug. Not that I mind the fact my oncologist was considering writing a paper based on his findings, but it is one thing being a ginuea pig and being reminded that you are a ginuea pig. I understand that each morsel of data collected helps my doctors help me as well as those that are yet to be diagnosed . There is, however, something disquieting in being a piece of data in a bigger puzzle. If that seems selfish- so be it, if there ever was a time for me to be selfish it is now.
Anyone undergoing treatment for cancer understands the "cocktail" of drugs that are used to combat the disease. It is not that I am hesitant to tell my oncologist about a new symptom, a new side effect, a new pain, I do believe in full disclosure but I do worry he will say "oh we have a drug for that" and it will just add to the ever increasing list of drugs I am currently taking. Mind you, I always tell him of everything that is going on, but often with a certain degree of trepidation.
Before writing this piece I did a very specific Google search on "side effects of cancer related drugs". The number of "hits" was 1,240 . You make be think well "that number isn't that big", and perhaps it isn't, until you become a cancer patient- then it seems enormous.
I will often wake up in the morning with an ache or a pain, often in the weirdest part of my body If it happens once and only lasts a matter of minutes or hours I don't give it a second thought, if the pain reoccurs and or becomes chronic I begin to question it.
My current "cocktail" of drugs is nine drugs per day, every day -and counting. Only one of them is an actual chemo drug, three of them I was on previous to being diagnosed, but the other five are all new and are designed to battle the ever increasing side effects of my treatment.
Knowing that the cancer and the cocktail of drugs is causing me to be less of a man than I was a year ago is disquieting. Knowing that I will be even less of my former self in 6 months is more disquieting.
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