Anticancer drugs or hormones given after surgery and/or radiation to help prevent the cancer from coming back.

 Hair loss.

 Refers to treatments that are promoted as cancer cures often by nonmedical people. They are unproven because they have not been scientifically tested, or were tested and found to be ineffective. It can be harmful to the patient if used instead of standard treatment.

 Having too few red blood cells. Symptoms of anemia include feeling tired, weak, short of breath, or dizzy.

 Poor appetite.

 A medicine that prevents or controls nausea and vomiting.

 A term used to describe a tumor that is not cancerous.

 Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune system to fight infection and disease; also called "Immunotherapy."

 The removal of a sample of tissue to see whether cancer cells are present.

 The number of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in a sample of blood. This is also called a complete blood count (CBC).