During treatment, patients may also experience hair loss and mucus membranes sloughing. Invasion and destruction of the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow leading to anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia (Copstead & Banasik, 2013). Gastrointestinal complications are common problems for cancer patients, these include constipation due to pain management, impaction, intestinal obstruction, diarrhea, and radiation enteritis. Cancer patients can also the following problems: hypercalcemia, adrenal insufficiency, and inappropriate antidiuretic syndrome, weight gain, sexual dysfunction/loss of libido in men, hot flashes, menopausal symptoms in younger women (Odle,
During treatment, patients may also experience hair loss and mucus membranes sloughing. Invasion and destruction of the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow leading to anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia (Copstead & Banasik, 2013). Gastrointestinal complications are common problems for cancer patients, these include constipation due to pain management, impaction, intestinal obstruction, diarrhea, and radiation enteritis. Cancer patients can also the following problems: hypercalcemia, adrenal insufficiency, and inappropriate antidiuretic syndrome, weight gain, sexual dysfunction/loss of libido in men, hot flashes, menopausal symptoms in younger women (Odle,