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BETA - What are late term side effects? Are late term side effects the same as long term side effects?

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• March 27, 2024

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Learn about late term side effects in this HealthTree University lesson by a cancer specialist.

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Healthtree contact Christina Bach, MBE, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C, FAOSW

Christina Bach, MBE, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C, FAOSW

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Are late-term side effects the same as long-term side effects? Called latent, long-term, or late-occurring side effects. Those are kind of interchangeable terms, but they're usually things that happen, you know, So, there's several years post-treatment, and with some treatments, that's a secondary cancer. For a lot of women who had breast cancer and were treated with certain medications, sometimes they develop MDS or leukemia many, many years after treatment for their breast cancer. So that's an example of a longer-term side effect from treatment. Will the computer know what the side effects are? The logic is pretty amazing. So it really just allows you to kind of check off all the treatments that you've had. And what happens is you choose your disease type, and then it has an algorithm. So it knows what treatments are associated with that disease type. And then you can check off what you have. There's always another in case you've had some other sort of treatment that might be an off-label or something else that your provider has done. And then again, it goes into this algorithm and says, okay, you've had drug A, and these are the side effects, both short and long term, that are associated with drug A, and then it produces the content based on that. It's a pretty technologically savvy tool.