Archive for January, 2007
Common Side Effects of Radiotherapy
All cancer treatments can have long term side effects. This is as true for radiotherapy as any other treatment.
Radiotherapy is painless, but it has varying side effects during treatment (acute side effects), in the months or years following treatment (long-term side effects), or after re-treatment (cumulative side effects).
Common Side Effects of Chemotherapy
The known side effects of chemotherapy are caused by the cell killing effect of anticancer drugs. Chemotherapy drugs act on normal cells as well as cancer cells, because they are not accurate like a sniper. They are, rather, like a night raid, they kill the malignant cells but with collateral victims.
