Reveals Changes In Skin Color Due To Cancer Drugs Experienced By Vidi Aldiano

Vidi Aldiano (Photo: Instagram/@vidialiano)

JAKARTA Singer Vidi Aldiano is known to be battling kidney cancer that she has been suffering from since 2019. Over the past few years, she has routinely undergone medical treatment, including chemotherapy. Recently, Sheila Dara Aisha's husband shared his outpouring on social media about the physical changes he experienced, allegedly as a side effect of chemotherapy drugs.

In an upload on his personal Instagram account, Vidi revealed that there was a significant change in the skin color of his body.

"Some months, somehow the skin tone of one body has gone up very much. Suspecting the new chemo drug I have glutathione. I don't want to be Edward Cullen help," wrote Vidi.

This expression immediately attracted public attention. Many netizens are curious about the relationship between chemotherapy and changes in skin tone experienced by cancer patients.

Medically, chemotherapy drugs are known to cause various side effects on the skin. Common conditions include rashes, dry skin, itching taste, sensitivity to light, to changes in skin color.

According to the National Cancer Institute, chemotherapy can trigger two types of skin tone changes:

- Hyperpigmentation, namely excessive embezzlement of skin tone.

- Hipopigmentation, namely the emergence of a skin area that is brighter than normal colors.

Both conditions are usually influenced by the types of drugs used, doses, and lengths of therapy taking place.

Not only that, the European Academy of Dermatology and Venerology also adds that skin color changes due to cancer treatment are known as changes in pigmentation. This not only affects the skin, but can also occur in mucus membranes, hair and nails.

In general, this change varies depending on the drugs given, namely the skin and apendiks becoming darker when chemotherapy is used. While the color becomes brighter or even completely disappears the pigment during certain target therapy or immunotherapy is used," reads a statement quoted from the European Academy of Dermatology and Venerology page.

This means that the skin response of each patient to treatment can be different. In some people, the skin becomes darker, while others actually look brighter.

It should be noted that this skin color change is generally not permanent. After the patient stops therapy or when the drug is no longer consumed, the skin will usually return to its original condition gradually.

However, changes that occur can affect the patient's confidence. Not a few cancer sufferers then feel anxious or uncomfortable with their physical appearance. Therefore, support from those closest to you is important in accompanying patients through the recovery process.

Vidi Aldiano's journey to fight kidney cancer is not easy. Since being sentenced to illness in 2019, he has often shared his health condition with the public honestly and as it is. This open attitude actually inspired many of his fans to keep their spirits up, even though they were facing a tough test.

The change in skin color that he is now experiencing is only one of the many side effects of cancer treatment. However, Vidi chose to respond with humor as well as full awareness that this is part of the healing process.