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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
2 or more chemo drugs are given. Treatment often lasts for many months. Side effects of chemo Chemo can have many side effects, like: Hair loss Mouth sores Not feeling like eating Diarrhea Feeling sick to your stomach and throwing up More risk of infections Bruising and bleeding easily Tiredness But these problems tend to go away after treatment ends. There are ways to treat most chemo side effects. Be sure to talk to your cancer care team so they can help. Other drug treatments Many other types of drugs can be used to treat multiple myeloma or its symptoms. These drugs work differently from chemo. Some of them target parts of myeloma cells that make them different from normal cells. Others help your immune system attack the myeloma cells. Still others can help strengthen your bones and lower your risk of fractures (broken bones). Often, different types of drugs are combined (sometimes along with chemo). Some of these drugs are taken as pills, while others are injected into a vein. Each of these drugs can have its own side effects, so ask your doctor about which drugs you will get and what to expect. Stem cell transplant A stem cell transplant (SCT) lets doctors use very high doses of chemo to kill the myeloma cells. The high doses of these drugs destroy the bone marrow, which keeps new blood cells from being made. Although the drugs destroy the bone marrow, stem cells given after the chemo can bring back the normal blood-making bone marrow stem cells. There are different kinds of SCT, each of which can have side effects. Ask your doctor which type you will have and what to expect. Radiation treatments Radiation uses high-energy rays (like x-rays) to kill cancer cells. This treatment may be used to
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