Coping with Treatment Side Effects 

Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, Malin Dollinger, MD, Barbara F. Piper, RN, OCN, DNSc, and Isadora Rosenbaum, MA 

When you are ill, your overriding goal is to get
well and return to an active life. If you are going
to reach that goal, every part of your
rehabilitation program is important—the psychological and social dimensions,
nutrition, pain control and all the others.
But unless the side effects of treat-
ment are looked after, you might
not have the energy nor even
the desire to get back to a
normal life.