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Everyone will react to chemo differently. You really can't tell how one person is going to react until they get the treatment, especially since there are so many different chemo drugs out there. A lot of people get the stomach symptoms described, but not everyone. Take my brother for example, he was diagnosed with cancer about 8 months ago, and the chemo has hardly bothered him at all. He was almost never nauseous and only a little tired. Of course, he was young healthy (other than this whole cancer thing) and in relatively good shape.
Anymore they have some pretty good drugs to control the nausea as well, which may help her as well. As yellow said above shakes like Boost (also Ensure i think is a goood one as well) can be good because they provide a lot of the vitamins and nutrients we need in a fairly easy to digest form. A lot of the chain drug stores (Wal Mart, Walgreens, etc) will offer generic versions of these that are pretty similar, albeit they may not taste quite as good.
Procrit is good for anemia, and if she starts having to weak of an immune system, there are some shots she can get for that as well that stimulate your bone marrow to make more white blood cells.
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