Common Complications After Treating Oncological Diseases, According to an Oncologist

The method of treating oncological diseases is determined individually and depends on many factors, such as the type of cancer, the stage of its development, the patient’s health status, the presence of concomitant diseases, but in any case, it is always a long and complex process, after which complications may develop in some patients. . Oncologist at the Institute of Oncology of the European Medical Center (EMC) Stanislav Borzyanytsia told Reedus about the most common of them.

“This should be treated normally, because correct and timely treatment can never harm the patient, but on the contrary, it can save his life,” he stressed.

According to the expert, complications after the treatment of oncological diseases will depend on what kind of therapy was carried out. For example, after radiation therapy, the most common problems are general fatigue and local irritation of the organ that was treated. As a rule, fatigue disappears after treatment is completed. Local irritation of the organ lasts a little longer, but with proper treatment it is successfully stopped.

After chemotherapy, the most common complications are nausea, vomiting, weakness and fatigue, fatigue. Fatigue may persist for several months after treatment is completed.

“It can affect a person’s ability to perform daily activities. Often, patients may develop depression due to chronic fatigue. In this case, you need to contact a specialist, and he will help you choose a therapy that will reduce the symptoms and alleviate the patient’s condition, ”the specialist notes.

Also, often after chemotherapy, polyneuropathy can develop. This is a pathology of the nervous system, in which the conduction of nerve endings is disturbed. A person may feel numbness, tingling, burning, and sometimes pain in the limbs.

In addition to medical treatment, physiotherapy, physiotherapy exercises, acupuncture, massage are used in this condition, which helps to relieve symptoms. The process of restoration of nerve fibers cannot be called fast, on average, a positive trend is noted after 3-6 months of treatment.

After surgical treatment, the most common complications are pain at the site of surgery and dysfunction of the organ. Acute attacks of pain, as a rule, are observed in the first days after surgical treatment and are easily stopped by modern painkillers.

“If you experience pain after cancer treatment, it is very important not to endure it, but immediately contact a specialist who will select the treatment. Now we have reached the level of development of medicine when absolutely anyone can be helped, ”concludes the interlocutor of Reedus.