Hi,
With modern medical advances, especially effective anti-emetics, and growth factors (filgrastim), chemotherapy has become safer and more tolerable over the last decade or so.
Hair loss will be your major side effect, and some intermittent illnesses may also be expected during the course of chemotherapy. But your overall long-term benefit will be much more than these temporary effects.
All the Best!
Do you mean filgrastim? And are you saying Dengue fever? It would be a surprising though perhaps not impossible use of filgrastim. Dengue is usually treated by pain managers and sometimes hospitalization and a blood transfusion.
Anyway, if you have a legitimate prescription from a doctor, you should be able to fill it in the United States.
For this reason, patients are prescribed antibiotics and even receive injections to increase white blood counts (such as filgrastim or lenograstim).
If this 0.4 value really pertains to your white counts, then I believe this is really low and what you are experiencing is a condition called 'febrile neutropenia'. I would suggest you ask your doctor about filgrastim or lenograstim injections aside from the Levaquin.
Regards.
Hey everyone, Its sally. I went to dr. yesterday and hade the PCR test done. My white blood count is now really low. Dr said to come back in 2 weeks and if blood work shows the count is not improving we will have to re-evaluate my dosage. Also they will call me on the results of the PCR test. Friday will be my 5th shot. Suddenly I'm so tired and scared. Another dr has me on Xanex and this is seeming to help.
Taken 21 injections of Pegasys 180 mcg till date. i am having very wide fluctuations in WBC and ANC. The range is between 6500 and 1400 for WBC and 4700 and 260 for ANC. Doctors unable to give any explanation for such wide variations on a dose to dose basis. Till date, I have also taken 5 doses of Filgrastim - the WBC Stimulator.
Can you pleae advice possible reasons for such wide fluctuations.
Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim) or NEUPOGEN® (Filgrastim) may reduce your chance of getting an infection, but it does not prevent all infections. An infection can happen anytime your neutrophil counts are low. Look for signs of infection, such as fever, chills, rash, sore throat, diarrhea, or redness, swelling, or pain around a cut or sore. If you have any of these signs, contact your health care professional immediately.
http://www.neulasta.com/starting-chemo-with-neulasta/about-neulasta-neupogen.
my mom is suffering frm breast cancer,she has had 6 sessions of chemotherapy and has also undergone mastectomy now she is going ho have radiation for 5weeks ,is it necessary for her to undergo radiation as her biopsy reports suggests that she doesnt have metastasis,and that she had in nerves.Will she be completely cured after radiation.?
My surgeon wants me to get radiation since the larger area was 3cm x 5cm and the smaller was microcalcifications an inch and a half away. I had a consult with a radiation oncologyst and he said it was up to me whether I had radiation or not. I am negative for estrogen or progesterone receptors and need to know what to do because of the conflicting advice. I am 64 years old, Caucasian, without any family history of cancer.
t understand this, but tissues actually absorb radiation, and only a small % of the radiation exits the body to form the image. Say 100% radiation enters the skin, maybe a few percent leaves on the backside.
So, this is just a long way of saying that if the dose was 20 mGy, then at most the dose seen at the lungs will be 20 mGy, the only way to increase the dose of exposed radiation is to increase the time or energy of the beam (or both).
Many medical tests, such as x-rays, CT scans, and Thallium scans, use ionizing radiation, while others, such as MRI and ultrasound, do not. Ionizing radiation is associated with a very slightly increased risk of various types of cancer. Therefore every effort is made to reduce the dose to as low as possible, and to shield patients and staff from ionizing radiation.
I just got my first report on my blood counts and my white blood cell count is low, 2.6. Is it o.k. to scoop kitty litter?
My Mom has stage IV breast cancer. It is now in her bones and lymph nodes. I am confused by the Radiologist and Oncologist's recommendations. Is it true that the radiation and chemo are not done at the same time? Should my Mom go with the chemo first since preventing spread and attacking the chemo is what we want not just dealing with a local area. I think the Radiologist may have said that they would only do 5 days of treatment.
I'm a male in my late 20s and had radiation treatment to my neck for lymphoma roughly four years ago. Since radiation can harm the thyroid, they took a baseline TSH measurement, which was 1.5 (.55 - 4.78). A year later, I noticed that I was gaining weight and so I had them check my TSH again and it was 3.65 (.55 - 4.78) and my Total T4 was 8.1 (4.5 - 10.9). A couple of years after that, my hair started falling out so I had my thyroid checked again and the TSH was 9.95 (.55 - 4.
My mom, age 73, is getting ready to start radiation treatments following breast cancer lumpectomy surgery. She went through this same surgery and radiation treatments about 15 years ago. Since her radiation treatment 15 years ago, she has experienced bouts of severe fatigue and her white cell count has been extremely low, approximately 1100-2500. The dr believes all the cancer cells were removed and lab reports indicate that her lymph nodes are clear.
The oncologist has recommended chemotherapy, radiation and tamoxifen - I was hoping only for radiation and tamoxifen so have asked for oncotype test. The results will take 3-4 weeks to come back. Can I afford to wait that long before starting radiation or chemotherapy or should I ask if I can have radiation then switch to chemo if oncotype comes back high?
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