Nausea, diarrhoea, joint pain, fatigue, hair loss – the list of side-effects for most cancer drugs reads like symptoms of many illnesses in their own right. Before I started my treatment for breast cancer, the oncologist went through a long list of the things that I could experience as side-effects. Visiting the websites of the likes of Cancer Research and Macmillan shows you how much of an issue side-effects are. These problems all seemed like the side-effects of chemo – I’d sometimes move on to a new drug, and the sickness could be attributed to that. Looking forward, there could be new side-effects from the drugs I’ll be taking to attack any remaining cancer.

Source: The Guardian March 18, 2023 15:22 UTC