As people go through chemotherapy treatment, changes occur throughout the body. Cancer patients start to lose their hair because of the chemotherapy. The hair could come out in chunks in a hair brush or just fall out unassisted. Another change to our body with the chemotherapy is that the patients may experience an inability to sleep, with the result that the patient feel fatigued. Patients may develop a feeling of dread, or concern that they will not survive the treatment. Considering all the negative effects from the chemotherapy, health care provider’s should work to provide a different way to treat …show more content…
Specific side effects on a particular patient depend on the type of Targeted Therapy drug they receive (Skin Reactions). Some of these side effects include: pimples, tenderness of the facial skin,sores inside the nose, painful redness around the nails, skin irritation, easily bruised skin, and dry itchy eyes (Skin Reactions). There are ways to treat the side effects using certain medications or lotions. Some of these side effects can cause loss of sleep due to itching (Skin Reactions). Targeted Therapy can save lives because the patients would not be exposed in a whole body fashion to the injected therapeutic drug, which is a poison, into the body, they would only be exposed to the limited treatment of the Targeted Therapy