Lots of the side effects from immunotherapy are because the immune system is amped up and attacking more than just the cancer.
Melanoma side effects after treatment.
Usually these symptoms are minor compared with those caused by a tumor in the brain but they might still affect your quality of life.
If you have been diagnosed with melanoma learn about the different types of melanoma treatment options including surgery immunotherapy and targeted therapy.
Side effects of skin cancer surgery may include.
People with melanoma may not feel like eating especially if they are uncomfortable or tired.
It also helps to know that in most cases side effects are not permanent.
Foods may taste different.
Pain scars swelling in your arms or legs called lymphedema infection feeling tired feeling sick to your stomach constipation or diarrhea anxiety or depression.
The possible side effects from treatment.
Coping with side effects fatigue nausea vomiting pain hair loss infection diarrhea constipation fluid retention mouth and throat problems are important to understand when undergoing chemotherapy treatment.
All melanoma cancer treatments have side effects.
The most common side effects from them appear to be flu like symptoms such as fever achy muscles and joints fatigue and nausea.
Pain scarring or disfigurement swelling or bruising nerve damage or numbness bleeding infection fatigue lymphedema.
Radiation therapy will not heal melanoma cancer but it will relieve the pain especially in the more advanced stages of the disease.
Some of the most common side effects of radiation therapy include fatigue diarrhea vomiting skin depigmetation and dermatitis.
Radiation therapy to the brain can sometimes cause memory loss headaches trouble thinking or reduced sexual desire.
Melanoma treatments might cause other kinds of health problems including.
You might also have itchy skin loss of skin pgmentation and.
Often these go away after treatment.
My husband stopped treatment in july 2018 after only 8 infusions of the ipi nivo combination and still struggles with fatigue joint pain headaches rashes intestinal issues ect.
