Abstract
Childhood cancer is a life-threatening chronic disease, which represents a great impact not only for patients, but for their family. The child with cancer must face the emotional, physical, social, and psychological effects of the disease and its treatment impact. It is believed that 1 in every 640 young adults between the ages of 20 and 39 years had cancer in their infancy, this added to increased survival due to current treatments, causes complications that may arise in the treatment or their disease be a marker of long-term morbidity. Therefore children with cancer must face the acquired changes and complications of the disease and its treatment. All these factors can impair the quality of life of children with cancer diagnosis and ensure implementation of the proposed scheme antineoplastic therapy more difficult. The aim of this article is to review major complications and side effects that can occur in patients who are undergoing cancer treatments detailing complications systems, the complications of drugs and adverse events that occurred in the care of these patients. MÉD.UIS. 2014;27(3):77-88.
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