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While a patient is undergoing cancer treatment he/she is bound to undergo fatigue. Sometimes fatigue results from cancer treatment and other times it is cancer itself that results into fatigue. Similarly sometimes fatigue is temporary and sometimes it sets permanently making everyday chores impossible.

The reasons for this fatigue during cancer treatment are far too many. I am listing some of them down with a possible strategy one can adopt to fight and overcome it. Before we move further we have to understand one thing that different people react to cancer differently. The factors for fatigue resulting from cancer may differ from person to person.

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Treating cancer involves removing and/or destroying cancer cells from the body. This can be achieved by several methods - Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy, going under surgeon’s knife, hormone therapy and biological therapy. Which type of treatment to take or choose depends upon number of factors, like the type of cancer, stage of cancer and age of the patient have an important role to play.

Hormone Therapy is applied in combination with Radiotherapy or Chemotherapy. And it’s generally applied when a person is affected with breast or prostrate cancer. To reduce the amount of estrogen or testosterone in the body one either goes for removal of the affected parts by way of surgery or takes chemo.

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When someone you know is undergoing Cancer Treatment or you are taking care of someone undergoing Cancer Treatment keep a few important points in mind and items by your side that will come in handy in day to day life of a cancer patients.

Bed Tray and Special Cups: Bed trays have multi purpose. They can be used by the person eat while lying in bed and patient can keep his book on it and read also. Like-wise these special cups due to their shape enable a patient undergoing treatment to drink in sleeping poison without spilling the liquid.

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Hormone therapy is mostly linked with men taking testosterone or women using estrogen during menopause. But hormone therapy for cancer is an altogether different concept. It is also called endocrine therapy and is used to change the hormones in your body so as to halt the progress of cancer or cure it. It is applied to treat only hormone-responsive cancers and is used together with other main cancer treatments.

Hormone therapy is used to decrease some particular hormones in your body or else change the ability of the tumor to use these hormones to increase and spread. By modifying the hormone supply the tumors shrink. Hormone therapy is generally used for breast, prostrate, and ovarian cancers.

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You may feel there is nothing humorous about cancer. Too true. After the diagnosis and during the treatment patients may not feel like laughing. Their minds are likely to be concerned with details about insurance and chemotherapy. How then do we convince you that laughter is good for cancer? Most people would consider it insensitive to crack a joke or laugh when with a terminally ill patient. But have you thought that perhaps they need to be diverted from their condition? If you can do that for them you are helping them to put their disease on the backburner and live a fuller life.

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