Even with the evolution of chemotherapeutic procedures and agents, chemotherapy may cause certain side effects that impair the patients' quality of life. The aim of this review is to isolate and describe the side effects arising only from chemotherapy. This paper comprises an extensive review of the main side effects affecting the health status of patients' undergoing chemotherapy procedures. In addition, Cancer patients experience a variety of symptoms that can be physical or psychological. These symptoms may vary in terms of occurrence, severity and distress and can be the result of the illness or the treatment.

Even with the evolution of chemotherapeutic procedures and agents, chemotherapy may cause certain side effects that impair the patient's quality of life. The aim of this research was to isolate and describe the side effects arising only from chemotherapy. This paper comprises an extensive research of the main side effects affecting the health status of patients undergoing chemotherapy procedures. In addition, Cancer patients experience a variety of symptoms that can be physical or psychological. These symptoms may vary in terms of occurrence, severity and distress and can be the result of the illness or the treatment Palliative chemotherapy may be given to decrease the tumor size, control growth, and reduce symptoms. Salvage chemotherapy was given as an attempt to get a patient into remission, after previous therapies have failed 1. The Aim of our study was to find the chemotherapy induced complications and assessment of knowledge score in cancer patients.