Surveying the effect of a self-care education program on severity of nausea and emesis in colorectal cancer patients under chemotherapy.

Background And Objective: Colorectal cancer is one of the main causes of mortality in both developed and developing countries, including Iran. One of the treatments available for colorectal cancer is chemotherapy, of which nausea and emesis are the side effects. Owing to problems in controlling the side effects, a combination of medicine and non-medicine interventions is usually used.