Coping Strategies for Chemotherapy Effect

Nowadays chemotherapy is the most important therapy for most cancers which objective is to restrain generating cancerous cells or killing them. Some strategies can be useful for controlling chemotherapy side effects which can outshine patients' life vigorously. The present study has been conducted under the goal of introducing such strategies.

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The recent researches have demonstrated that patients apply different useful strategies such as progressive relaxation methods, meditation strategies, massage therapy, yoga exercises, and other amusing strategies such as book reading, listening to music and walking, spiritual activities like saying prayers and holy book reading, and planned disturbing mind activities Most of mentioned strategies lead to disease signs' controlling, providing healthy life and side effects controlling on daily life which can develop social and psychological patients' lives.

 Discussion and Conclusion:

Due to the common problems and side effects of chemotherapy and also the importance of applying strategies to deal with these side effects in the clients, it is necessary to get acquainted to these strategies in order to be able to decrease mentioned side effects by both nurses and patients.