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Ana de Juan Ferré, María Eugenia Vega Villegas, Carlos López Aguilar, Ana López, Almudena García Nieto, Javier Ramos García, Fernando Rivera Herrero, José Manuel López Vega
El tratamiento de los pacientes oncológicos todavía requiere en la mayoría de los casos quimioterapia y/o radioterapia. Son tratamientos agresivos por la falta de especificidad ocasionando diferentes toxicidades. Mientras se desarrollan nuevos tratamientos mas selectivos y, por tanto, con escasa toxicidad sobre los tejidos sanos, es fundamental no solo informar a los pacientes acerca de la toxicidad esperable de cada fármaco, de la prevención y del tratamiento a seguir, sino que es tanto o más importante prepararlos psicológicamente y ayudarlos a aliviar y a afrontar mas positivamente el tratamiento. Para ello es importante conocer que paradójicamente las toxicidades mas frecuentes o potencialmente graves desde el punto de vista medico no coinciden en ocasiones con aquellas que angustian al paciente y, por tanto, de no conocer este dato a priori la ayuda no será la adecuada. El objetivo es minimizar las consecuencias del cáncer y de la quimioterapia aumentando su calidad de vida
Oncological treatment of cancer patients still requires in the majority of cases chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. Due to their lack of specificity, they are aggressive treatments that can cause different toxicities. Nowadays, new more selective and, therefore, less aggressive treatments against healthy tissues are being developped. Meanwhile, it is essential to inform patients against the expected toxicity of each drug, to inform them about toxicity prevention and about the treatment required on each case. Moreover, it is very important to prepare them psychologically, to relieve them and to prepare them to face the treatment in the best possible way.In order to achieve so, it is extremely valuable to know that paradoxically the more common or potentially lethal toxicities from the doctor¿s point of view might not match in some cases with those that distress the patient. Therefore, if this information is not taken into account in advance, all the help that might be given could result in fact worthless The aim is to minimize cancer and chemotherapy consequences improving quality of life.
