The OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and cancer patients are working together to ease difficult symptoms and toxic side effects while going through chemotherapy.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Many cancer patients suffer difficult symptoms and toxic side effects while going through chemotherapy. Now, researchers at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute are studying how to ease the burden of those treatments.
One of those participating in the study is cancer patient Cliff Alexander. He says he experiences all types of symptoms.
“Typical things like nausea, sleeplessness, and all these others, some pain and things like that,” Cliff said.
His wife said it all began when he went to the doctor for some stomach issues.
“He started having some stomach discomfort in October of 2022. It hadn’t gone on for very long, but I took him to the ER because it was just weird. It made him throw up,” said Nicole Alexander.
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