Together with AIDS, cancer is the lethal threat of the 20th century. Lots of people have become direct or indirect victims to this illness, either by suffering from the condition or by having someone dear to them devastated by tumor development. Knowing what cancer patients go through during chemotherapy is very difficult but reading about it may shed a bit of light on how to help and comfort these patients. To start with, chemotherapy side effects are aspects that patients dread most.

There are very numerous side effects, and their extent and intensity vary according to the length of the treatment and the type of drugs involved. Most chemotherapy side effects are temporary and they decrease in intensity and eventually stop after a certain period of time. It seldom happens for some adverse reactions to persist for several years after the cessation of the treatment.

If you were interested in finding out more about the chemotherapy side effects of various treatments or combinations of drugs, you should know that there are a great deal of sources providing you with relevant information helpful in alleviating and understanding the pain the patient goes through. The list with potential chemotherapy side effects is about 200 items long and it includes such effects as abdominal pain, dizziness, nausea, chills, cardio-toxicity, edema, eye problems, lack of appetite, weight gain or loss, memory loss, leukemia, infections of various types in various parts of the body, nose bleeds, pulmonary embolus, pneumonia, rapid heartbeat, water retention, and so on. Going through such a list will surely turn out quite discouraging but you ought to know that these chemotherapy side effects will not appear all at once and in the same patient. They are each specific to a certain type of cancer and are definitely related to the type of drug or combination of drugs that the doctor has recommended as treatment.

Normally, patients should be informed by their doctors on the possible chemotherapy side effects and their persistence at the end of the treatment. Explaining what the patient will go through constitutes an essential preparatory stage as this will avoid having the patient panic about something that is usually associated with certain drugs. Most often, doctors come up with several treatment schemes and present their to their patients with the pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages.

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Whether or not you can have the thought that you can survive prostate cancer, it's very important for you to have an open mind that you can. I understand how horrible prostate cancer can be, but it's still not as much a killer disease as the rest of the world has made it to seem. Yes, it has killed lots of people all over the world, young and old. Yes, it's still killing lots more people all over the world. Yes, and all the other yess, but the fact remains that there are still lots of people that continue to survive prostate cancer each and everyday.
If other individuals have survived prostate cancer, then it's very possible that you can survive it as well. Nothing makes the people who have survived it more special than you. I am very sure that the most important ingredient to their surviving the prostate cancer wasn't mostly the treatment itself, but mostly in their BELIEF that they would survive it. Yes, you read that right. More important than the treatment itself is YOUR BELIEF in your ability to heal yourself.
Nature, or God (depending on the term you wish to use), has blessed every individual with the inert ability to heal themselves, but lots of people don't know about this ability. Even those who "suspect" the potential of this ability do nothing much about it. That's mostly why lots of people don't get cured when others do get cured, especially when both of them have the exact same condition.
That's why I always tell folks to STAY OPEN. As far as prostate cancer or any other cancer or disease is concerned, it's best o stay open and believe that a cure is possible, instead of giving up and expecting death to come. I don't care if you have been given a very limited prognosis by the doctors and you are now waiting on death to come, a miraculous cure for your prostate cancer might just be around the corner.
Finally, it's not just about staying open. You should try to learn all you can about other people that have survived prostate cancer and find out what they did, then do the same thing. You might just about get the exact same results, especially if you have the right BELIEF that you will survive it too, and if you have the right mindset! I am sure within a very short time, you will begin to see incredible improvement in your situation. Trust me, it can happen if your belief in your ability to heal yourself is strong enough!