Gastrointestinal side effects of cancer treatments

Cancer survival rates have significantly improved over the last number of years due to advancements in cancer therapies. Unfortunately this has come at a cost. Therapeutic side effects are feared complications of therapy that may result in decreased quality of life and early cessation of the therapy...

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Autores principales: O’Reilly, Mary, Mellotte, Gregory, Ryan, Barbara, O’Connor, Anthony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7705778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33294145
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2040622320970354
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description Cancer survival rates have significantly improved over the last number of years due to advancements in cancer therapies. Unfortunately this has come at a cost. Therapeutic side effects are feared complications of therapy that may result in decreased quality of life and early cessation of the therapy, which can have knock-on effects on outcomes. This article outlines the main gastrointestinal side effects seen with radiation therapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, and discusses appropriate investigation and management.
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spelling pubmed-77057782020-12-07 Gastrointestinal side effects of cancer treatments O’Reilly, Mary Mellotte, Gregory Ryan, Barbara O’Connor, Anthony Ther Adv Chronic Dis Review Cancer survival rates have significantly improved over the last number of years due to advancements in cancer therapies. Unfortunately this has come at a cost. Therapeutic side effects are feared complications of therapy that may result in decreased quality of life and early cessation of the therapy, which can have knock-on effects on outcomes. This article outlines the main gastrointestinal side effects seen with radiation therapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, and discusses appropriate investigation and management. SAGE Publications 2020-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7705778/ /pubmed/33294145 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2040622320970354 Text en © The Author(s), 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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