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How painful is chemotherapy?

I've been told that if you give 10 patients the same drug you will have 10 different reactions, so it would really depend on the individual how painful chemotherapy is. The common problems are nausea, fatigue, constipation, sometimes diarrhoea, and some people have an aversion to needles. So there's a whole spectrum of possibilities when having chemotherapy to treat your cancer. But I also see people who do very well and there's drugs for nausea, constipation and diarrhoea, so there's ways to treat mostly everything that you experience during your chemotherapy cancer treatment.

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