Chemotherapy treatment enhances the quality of many lives each year.
However, there are also side effects for a patients body, which occur along the use of chemotherapy.
As we know, chemotherapy is a drug treatment that is used to treat a variety of serious medical conditions like cancer.
Chemotherapy drugs done by administrated to the bloodstream and then attacking the abnormal cells as well as the good cells in the body in the hope that it will eradicate the cancer.
Some of the effects are mild and easily managed by patient while others can be very dangerous.
Most side effects from chemotherapy disappear after the treatment is stopped, but there are some effects that occur in long period of time and sometimes permanent.
Some research confirm that almost patient who are going through chemotherapy often experience a difference in the way things taste.
Many chemotherapy patients have reported a constant metallic taste in their mouths such as dislike for sweet food or a sudden increase in the desire for sweet food.
One common long term side effect of chemotherapy treatment is fatigue and tiredness.
People who experience long term of chemotherapy generally underwent high dose of drugs.
This condition often results in having a much lower resistance to injection for a long period of time.
Depending on a person's age, other health factors, and the type of cancer they are enduring, chemotherapy treatment can cause infertility in people, either permanently.
Infertility can occur in both men and women, which can last different lengths of time.
Chemotherapy is also capable of causing long term damage in certain organs, such as the heart.
Another body organ is the lung.
Some negative long term side effect possibilities resulting from heart and lung damage include conditions like pulmonary fibrosis and also restrictive lung disease, as well as various others.