Excuse me, what physical pain will chemotherapy cause?

Chemotherapy is one of the means of comprehensive treatment of malignant tumors, which is used to treat a variety of tumors. However, while chemotherapy plays an anti-cancer role, a series of toxic and side effects can not be ignored.

In the process of cancer treatment, although chemotherapy drugs destroy tumor cells harmful to human body, they also cause considerable damage to normal cells of human body, such as bone marrow cells and gastrointestinal mucosal cells. Common side effects during clinical chemotherapy are:

1. Decline of immune function: Chemotherapy drugs can damage the immune system of patients, resulting in loss or decline of immune function. Immune function indicators, such as E- rosette test, CH50, C3 complement, T cell subsets, NK cell activity, IL-II, etc. After chemotherapy, it can be decreased in different degrees compared with before chemotherapy. Most anti-tumor chemotherapy drugs have immunosuppressive effect.

2. Weakness: Patients may have general fatigue, listlessness, excessive sweating, drowsiness, etc.

3. Bone marrow suppression: Most chemotherapy drugs can cause bone marrow suppression, which is manifested by the decrease of white blood cells and platelets, and even the decrease of red blood cells and hemoglobin.

4. Digestive system diseases: loss of appetite, decreased food intake, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea or constipation. Many chemotherapy drugs cause the above symptoms by stimulating gastrointestinal mucosa.

5. Inflammatory reaction: fever, dizziness, headache, dry mouth, sores on the mouth and tongue, etc.

6. Cardiotoxicity: Some chemotherapy drugs can produce cardiotoxicity and damage myocardial cells, and patients have symptoms such as palpitation, chest tightness, precordial discomfort, shortness of breath, and even heart failure. Electrocardiogram can show T wave changes or S-T segment changes.

7. Nephrotoxicity: The high-dose use of some chemotherapy drugs can cause renal function damage, resulting in low back pain and renal discomfort.

8. Pulmonary fibrosis: cyclophosphamide, vincristine and bleomycin. It can cause pulmonary fibrosis, and the chest film shows that the lung texture is thickened or changed in strips. It is more dangerous and even life-threatening for patients with poor lung function in the past.

9. Cystitis: ifosfamide, cantharidin, camptothecin, etc. It can cause patients to have a series of symptoms of drug-induced cystitis such as abdominal discomfort or swelling pain and hematuria.

10. Neurotoxicity: mainly refers to the damage of chemotherapy drugs to peripheral nerves, and patients may have numbness and numbness of limbs. Such as vincristine, vinblastine, vinblastine, vinorelbine, etc. There will be different degrees of neurotoxic side effects.

1 1. Hepatotoxicity: Almost all chemotherapy drugs can cause liver function damage, which can be mild or abnormal, and patients can feel discomfort in the liver area. It can even lead to toxic hepatitis.

12. Phlebitis: most chemotherapy drugs are administered by intravenous drip, which can cause phlebitis in different degrees, and the color of diseased blood vessels turns dark red or dark yellow, with local pain and feeling like a rope. In severe cases, it will lead to thrombophlebitis and blood flow obstruction.