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Symptoms and side effects from cancer and cancer treatments can cause distress and suffering. These handbooks provide information about an integrativein cancer care, a patient-centered approach combining the best of conventional care, self care and evidence-informed complementary care in an integrated plan approach to manage and reduce unpleasant symptoms.

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Side Effects

Anxiety

Self-care practices and complementary therapies can help people with cancer manage anxiety and improve cancer outcomes.
Side Effects

Constipation

Constipation is a common symptom experienced by people with cancer. Understanding complementary therapies and lifestyle practices that can alleviate constipation can help improve your quality of life.
Side Effects

Depression

Managing depression can help you maintain your daily activities and relationships and improve your quality of life. Reducing depression can boost your ability to make skillful choices about your care and cope with cancer treatment.
Side Effects

Diarrhea

Diarrhea can happen during and even after some cancer treatments. Complementary therapies and lifestyle practices can help to ease diarrhea and improve your quality of life.
Side Effects

Fatigue

Fatigue, whether from cancer or from the demands of caregiving, can impair your quality of life, but several therapies and practices can provide relief.
Side Effects

Gastrointestinal Symptoms

Gastrointestinal upsets such as nausea, vomiting, constipation, and diarrhea can be common during some cancer treatments. Finding relief can not only greatly enhance your quality of life, but may help you maintain your body weight and even complete your treatment.
Side Effects

Heartburn

Cancer and related treatments can sometimes cause heartburn. We provide information on what can increase your risk of heartburn and ways to manage it.
Side Effects

Hot Flashes

In addition to a sensation of heat, hot flashes can cause nausea, anxiety, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, and headache. Managing hot flashes can help you maintain your daily activities and improve your quality of life.
Side Effects

Nausea and Vomiting

Finding relief from nausea and vomiting can greatly enhance your quality of life and may help you maintain your body weight and even complete your treatment. Several lifestyle practices and complementary therapies can help you manage nausea and vomiting.
Side Effects

Neuropathy and Neurological Symptoms

Neurological symptoms such as chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) can have substantial impacts on your quality of life and ability to complete cancer treatment. Conventional and complementary therapies can help you manage these symptoms.
Side Effects

Pain

Cancer-related pain is common, especially in advanced cancer. Conventional and complementary therapies, including self-care practices, can help you manage pain.
Side Effects

Sleep Disruption

Sleep disruption, also called insomnia, can greatly impact your quality of life, but therapies can help you achieve quality sleep.
Healing Practices

Managing Stress

Identifying, reducing, or removing the stressors in your life is a critical dimension of healing with cancer. So is managing your response to the stressors you can’t remove.

Handbooks on further side effects and symptoms are available on our predecessor site, Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies:

We’ll be updating these handbooks and creating many more, publishing them here.

Find therapies for specific symptoms and side effects

You can search for therapies showing benefit for a symptom or side effect in our Supplement and Therapies Database. Select a symptom from the filters along the left side of the page.

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