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Side Effects of Radiation

The following side effects have been identified with cancer treatment by Radiation. If you associate with any of the following side effects, follow the link to discover how health professionals can assist in their treatment.

Fatigue

Side effects related to a persistent feeling of physical, emotional, or mental tiredness or exhaustion. This type of fatigue is different than other types of fatigue because it interferes with a person’s usual functioning, does not reflect their level of activity, and does not improve with rest.

Pain

Side effects related to a state of physical, emotional, or mental lack of well-being or physical, emotional, or mental uneasiness that ranges from mild discomfort or dull distress to acute often unbearable agony, may be generalized or localized. It produces a reaction of wanting to avoid, escape, or destroy the causative factor and its effects.

Tracey Dingley Facial Specialist

Side effects related to spleen, lymph nodes, bone marrow, leukocytes and neutrophils.

Natural Essential Wellbeing Woodgate - Sandy Barker

Side effects related to conscious intellectual activity such as thinking, reasoning, remembering, imagining, or learning.

Reproductive

Side effects related to prostate, testes, ovaries, ducts and glands.

Gastrointestinal

Side effects related to mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, anus, liver, pancreas, and gallbladder.

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center

Side effects related to mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, anus, liver, pancreas, and gallbladder.

Natural Essential Wellbeing Bundaberg- Sandy Barker

Side effects related to body chemistry, hormones and glands.

Cardiovascular

Side effects related to the circulation of blood through the body including the heart, arteries and blood vessels.

Emmanuel Center Skin and Soft Tissue Clinic, Asian Cancer Institute, Asian Hospital and Medical Center

Side effects related to bone and bone marrow.

Musculoskeletal

Side effects related to the form, support, stability, and movement to the body including bones of the skeleton, muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, joints, and other connective tissue that supports and binds tissues and organs together.

Integumentary

Side effects related to the skin, and skin derivatives such as hair, nails, glands and receptors.

National Center for Plastic Surgery - Clinical Aesthetician

Side effects related to inhalation of oxygen and the exhalation of carbon dioxide, including maintenance of body temperature and elimination of excess water from the body.

Lymphatic

Side effects related to lymph fluid, white blood cells and lymph nodes including removal of lymph nodes.