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Low Appetite and Weight Loss
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Loss of appetite is a common side effect of cancer and your treatment. This means you may not feel hungry, not want to eat, or have no taste for food. It can lead to weight loss that could negatively impact your health and quality of life. It’s important to eat well during your…
Treatment and side effects, Mental health and wellness
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Shared Decision Making: Discussion tool for people with a blood cancer
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You or your loved one has been diagnosed with a type of blood cancer. You will be making important decisions with your healthcare team.
Treatment and side effects
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Shared Decision Making: Discussion tool for healthcare providers
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Your patient has been diagnosed with a type of blood cancer. You will be supporting them and their family in making important decisions
Treatment and side effects
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AML Maintenance Therapy: A Conversation with Dr. Tobias Berg
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Leukemia, Treatment and side effects
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Maintenance Therapy: Staying in remission after treatment
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Maintenance therapy is treatment given after the first (primary) therapy used to manage your cancer, or lower your risk of the cancer coming back. Some people may use maintenance therapy for a long time. This type of therapy can include drugs, vaccines, antibodies, or hormones.…
Treatment and side effects
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New Treatment Guidelines to Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL): Latest advances & treatments
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In this 1-hour webcast, Dr. Versha Banerji, a Canadian leader in CLL treatment and research, have provided the latest information on CLL diagnosis and treatment options. Dr. Banerji spoke about who the disease affects and how it progresses, how decisions are made about when to…
Leukemia, Treatment and side effects
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Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) factsheet
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. You or your loved one has been diagnosed with a type of blood cancer. You may experience side effects from the therapy you receive. Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is a side effect that can happen after some forms of immunotherapy treatment. It may cause…
Treatment and side effects
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Managing cancer-related fatigue and brain fog - 2023 Living Well with a Blood Cancer conference
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As a result of cancer and its treatment,people touched by a blood cancer can experience some degree of fatigue and brain fog. In this presentation, Kendra Woloshyn, RN, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, will talk about the two big F words in cancer care along with how to manage…
Treatment and side effects, Mental health and wellness
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Infection prevention: Staying healthy during cancer treatments - 2023 Living Well with a Blood Cancer Conference
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People affected by a blood cancer are frequently immunosuppressed and at risk for a wide range of infections, due to treatments. Lots of things can be done to reduce risk of infection. Summer Pham, RN, focuses on ways to prevent infections and stay healthy during blood cancer…
Treatment and side effects, Mental health and wellness
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Peripheral Neuropathy (nerve damage)
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Peripheral neuropathy happens when there is damage to the nerves of the peripheral nervous system. It can be caused by the treatment of blood cancer or the disease.
Treatment and side effects