Work with your health care team

Consider preparing a list of questions about side effects to ask your health care team so that you can get ready for chemotherapy.

Here are some questions you can ask:

• What side effects are most common with the drugs I'm receiving?
• How do these compare with the side effects of other treatments?
• What can I do to prepare for these side effects?
• What can I do to decrease the chances that I'll have them?
• What side effects are dangerous and should prompt a call or visit to the clinic?
• May I call you anytime if I have these side effects? What phone number should I use?

After you start treatment, it's important to tell your health care team about all the side effects you experience. The earlier they know, the more likely they can prevent side effects from becoming more-serious problems.