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Cancer Treatment Side Effect: Involuntary Weight Loss

By Cynthia DeMarco

Involuntary weight loss is a serious side effect of cancer and its treatment for many patients.

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Why Cancer Patients Don’t Have Enough Information to Make Decisions About Their Treatments

In the past four years, Bruce Mead-e has undergone two major surgeries, multiple rounds of radiation and chemotherapy to treat his lung cancer. Yet in all that time, doctors never told him or his husband whether the cancer was curable — or likely to take Mead-e’s life.

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Liz Szabo
2017
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I Thought Being a Health Care Reporter Would Make Cancer Easier. I Was Wrong.

Nothing can prepare you for the immense number of complicated, sometimes life-or-death decisions the disease forces you to make about your own treatment.

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Alexandra Glorioso
2019
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A Food Lover Faces an Unimaginable Choice: Give Up Her Stomach or Risk a Fatal Cancer

I had just learned I carry a genetic mutation that puts me at an incredibly high risk for a rare stomach cancer.

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Sáša Woodruff
2021
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Young People Facing End-of-Life Care Decisions

It is extremely difficult for anyone, especially young people in their 20s and 30s, to be told that their treatment(s) haven’t worked. If the cancer you have continues to progress despite treatment, it may be called end-stage cancer.

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National Cancer Institute
2020
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Making Important Decisions During Cancer: A Survivor’s Story

A sage piece of advice I’d gotten once was to never make any big life decision in an emotional state. Always give yourself time. But what happens when you don’t have time? No person with cancer has the luxury of time. I sure didn’t. So what happens then?

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Bethany Hart
2021
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Cancer Treatment Decisions: 5 Steps to Help You Decide

Here are five steps to guide you in becoming a partner with your doctor in determining and guiding your cancer treatment.

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Mayo Clinic Staff
2021
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Understanding Your Options and Making Treatment Decisions

Your cancer care team will teach you about your treatment options. But, there’s lots of information about cancer treatments available from other sources, too. There’s also a lot of misinformation out there.

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American Cancer Society
2021
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Exercise May Help to Ease ‘Chemo Brain’

Women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer who stayed physically active had fewer problems with memory and thinking.

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Gretchen Reynolds
2021
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Cognitive Changes After Cancer Treatment

Some cancers and treatments can result in cognitive changes that affect thinking, learning, processing or remembering information. These changes can affect many aspects of life such as the ability to work or even to do everyday tasks. Find out whether you have an increased risk of cognitive changes.

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Livestrong
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Leukaemia Patient Mistook Cancer for Covid-19

A leukaemia patient is urging people not to assume their symptoms are coronavirus after he mistook his cancer for long Covid.

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BBC News
2021
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