About This Book
Chemotherapy and You is written for you - someone who
is about to receive or is now receiving chemotherapy for
cancer. Your family, friends, and others close to you may
also want to read this book.
This book is a guide you can refer to throughout your
chemotherapy treatment. It includes facts about
chemotherapy and its side effects and also highlights ways
you can care for yourself before, during, and after treatment.
Rather than read this
book from beginning
to end, look at just
those sections you
need now. Later, you
can always read more.
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This book covers:
- Questions and answers about chemotherapy. Answers common questions, such as
what chemotherapy is and how it affects cancer cells.
- Side effects and ways to manage them. Explains side effects and other problems that
may result from chemotherapy. This section also has ways that you and your doctor or
nurse can manage these side effects.
- Tips for meeting with your doctor or nurse. Includes questions for you to think about
and discuss with your doctor, nurse, and others involved in your cancer care.
- Ways to learn more. Lists ways to get more information about chemotherapy and
other topics discussed in this book - in print, online, and by telephone.
- Words to know. A dictionary that clearly explains all the words that are in bold in
this book.
Talk with your doctor or nurse about what you can expect during chemotherapy.
He or she may suggest that you read certain sections of this book or try some of the
ways to manage side effects.
Product or brand names that appear in this book are for example only. The U.S. Government
does not endorse any specific product or brand. If products or brands are not mentioned, it
does not mean or imply that they are not satisfactory.
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