Chemo Pump Side Effects

Particularly for colon cancer metastases to the liver there is evidence for a higher response rate in patients.

Chemo pump side effects.

You may or may not have side effects from chemo. As chemotherapy progresses many patients experience significant hair loss and some develop painful sores inside the mouth. Internal chemotherapy pumps are sometimes used to treat patients with liver cancer. This comes with fast and hard pounding heartbeat heart palpitations shortness of breath dizziness exertion and fatigue.

A little more discussion might be in order. Blood transfusions are given for patient to continue on with their chemotherapy treatment. Chemo may also attack your hair follicles. Benefits of intrahepatic pump therapy fewer side effects.

By administering the chemotherapy directly into the liver we can use a much higher concentration of the chemotherapy with fewer systemic side effects. Decreased urination swelling of the hands swollen feet and ankles headache. Chemo also destroys red blood cells causing anemia. Maybe they think if we don t talk about side effects too much we won t experience as many or they won t be as bad.

Symptoms of kidney damage include. The dangers here are also too risky to carry on without needed transfusion.