These are very management symptoms and tend to occur during the beginning of the course of treatment
For instance, chemotherapy drugs such as fluorouracil (5-FU), methotrexate, etoposide, and melphalan carry a higher risk of mucositis than other chemotherapy agents, but the development of mucositis is not limited to these agents alone
Side effects are rare and generally mild and include temporary warmth or minor bruising at the injection site
Both medications share similar GLP-1 class side effects, primarily nausea and GI symptoms during dose escalation that typically resolve within weeks
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When gene-edited mice were given oral GLP-1s, the already known pathways of appetite reduction were activated