Can chemotherapy cause digestive problems?

Can chemotherapy cause digestive problems?

Christian Cable, Dr. Ryan Osborne & Dr. Noam Z. Drazin (Cancer Experts) gives expert video advice on: What is 'chemotherapy'?; What are the basic types of chemotherapy?; How does chemotherapy work? and more...

When the stomach is affected, that's one of the main causes for nausea. Nausea is just the feeling that your stomach is not at ease, that you can't tolerate food, that someone may even need to vomit. Further down in the gut, the small intestine, those rapidly dividing cells, when they're affected it can cause diarrhoea, which is another common side effect of chemotherapy.