If so, this booklet can help you. While chemotherapy helps treat cancer, it can also cause other things to happen in your body called side effects. Some of these problems affect the mouth and could cause you to delay or stop treatment. To help prevent serious problems, see a dentist at least 2 weeks before starting chemotherapy. A dentist can help prevent mouth problems.
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to treat cancer.
These drugs kill cancer cells, but they may also harm normal cells, including cells in the mouth. It s important to know that side effects in the mouth can be serious. The side effects can hurt and make it hard to eat, talk, and swallow. You are more likely to get an infection, which can be dangerous when you are receiving cancer treatment. If the side effects are bad, you may not be able to keep up with your cancer treatment.