Joint pain after chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is a treatment method that is very harmful to people's bodies. This treatment method will have quite a lot of side effects after use, so it will completely destroy the patient's normal life and even cause the patient to often experience joint pain. This situation is still very common after chemotherapy. After it occurs, you need to receive treatment according to your symptoms.

Chemotherapy drugs are cytotoxic drugs, and they will have some toxic side effects to a greater or lesser extent. The most common ones are: 1. Digestive system reactions such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and constipation. Among them, nausea and vomiting is one of the most common reactions to chemotherapy. In recent years, some powerful and effective antiemetic drugs have been launched on the market, which greatly reduces the nausea and vomiting reactions after chemotherapy.

2. Bone marrow suppression such as leukopenia and thrombocytopenia. Generally, the condition will recover on its own 1 to 2 weeks after stopping chemotherapy. For some more serious bone marrow suppression, there are drugs available that can effectively increase leukemia and platelets, so there is no need to worry. 3. Hair loss Some chemotherapy drugs may cause hair loss, but hair loss is reversible and new hair will grow again after stopping chemotherapy. 4. Others such as liver and kidney function damage, etc.

1. Patients whose physical condition is too poor or too old to withstand chemotherapy. 2. Those with severe organ dysfunction (such as severe liver and kidney dysfunction, etc.). 3. Early-stage cancers (such as carcinoma in situ and stage I cancer) that have been successfully surgically removed generally do not require chemotherapy. 4. For those who develop drug resistance after multiple chemotherapy treatments and whose chemotherapy regimens are still ineffective, other treatment methods should be chosen. 5. A few cancers are not sensitive to chemotherapy drugs, and chemotherapy is difficult to achieve the expected therapeutic effect. Other treatment methods (such as biological immunotherapy) may benefit patients.

Chemotherapy is the abbreviation of chemotherapy, which achieves the treatment purpose by using chemotherapy drugs to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy is currently one of the most effective methods for treating cancer, and is considered one of the three major cancer treatments along with surgery and radiotherapy. Surgery and radiotherapy are local treatments and are only effective for tumors at the treatment site. They are difficult to effectively treat potential metastatic lesions (cancer cells have actually metastasized, but cannot be discovered and detected clinically due to current technical limitations) and cancers that have already undergone clinical metastasis.