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You may equate colon cancer treatment with a loss of appetite or weight loss, but something that affects many patients undergoing colon cancer treatment is a change in their taste buds, with everyday foods just not tasting the same as they did before treatment. Colon Cancer Treatment: How and Why Taste Changes.
1 Taste changes are common during chemotherapy. The exact reason for taste changes is not clear, although it is thought that it is a result of the damage to the cells in the oral cavity, which are especially sensitive to chemotherapy.  About 50% of patients getting chemotherapy experience taste changes.