eli5: Why cant they anesthetize chemo patients so they don’t feel the pain from chemotherapy?

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eli5: Why cant they anesthetize chemo patients so they don’t feel the pain from chemotherapy?

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Anaesthetising someone for the most part is sedating them and giving them a muscle relaxant, they’ll still feel pain, which is why the anaesthetist has to keep their pain controlled with analgesics, control heart rate and blood pressure etc. It’s not a magic fix all

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