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Help
Yourself During Chemotherapy
4 Steps
for Patients
Chemotherapy:
How You Can Help
Chemotherapy
is treating cancer with drugs that kill cancer cells.
What you
do during chemotherapy is important to your health. This information
talks about ways to help yourself:
If you
have any questions after reading this, ask your doctor or
nurse. They can tell you more about chemotherapy.
4
Steps for You to Help Yourself During Chemotherapy:
Click
on one of the steps to learn more.....
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STEP 1
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Tell
your doctor if you get side effects from treatment
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STEP 2
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Ask
your doctor before you take any other medicine
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STEP 3
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Take
care of your health
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STEP 4
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Talk
about your feelings
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Talk to
your doctor and nurse about these four steps. Ask questions
about the information that you are about to read. Be sure
to know how to do your part in helping chemotherapy work for
you.
To learn
more about cancer, call the National Cancer Institute's Cancer
Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237). The
people who answer your call will talk with you about chemotherapy
or any other cancer questions you have.
National
Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute |
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