Low Neutrophil Count - Articles
Velcade
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Teresa K.
... lcade. Velcade is given IV. Side effects include neuropathy, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, anemia, neutropenia, and thrombocytopenia. After his first dose, the developed a very low neutrophil count and ended up with what is called a neutropenic fever, a fairly common phenomenon in chemo patients. He then had to be treated with IV antibiotics for 10 d ...
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UKALL 2003 - Delayed Intensifcation 1 and Drugs
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Angus
... (IV - intravenous). The dose is gradually increased by 50 mg/sq. m. throughout this stage from a starting point of 100 mg/sq. m. but is stopped at signs of toxicity – either low neutrophil counts (neutropenia), severe mucositis (sore/infected mouth) or liver/kidney dysfunction. In the case of a low neutrophil count, when it has recovered your chil ...
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Back to Work
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Angus
... ent the weekend recovering. A bit depressed. Back to work today and busy getting back up to speed. I will try and post more later in the week.Kezia's neutrophil count was too low to continue treatment Wednesday last, so hopefully this Wednesday.
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Chemotherapy - ABVD - day 15, th ...
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NeilW
Chemotherapy - ABVD - day 15, the start of cycle 8 note: the final blood test results are in I'm still at a dangerously low level for my neutrophil counts (0.4), we have proceeded with the chemo for this cycle and the doctors have put me on to a 5 day regime of neupogen shots to help stimulate ...
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Medical Update
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Angus
Kezia's neutrophil counts yesterday were still too low to go back on oral methotrexate and mercapturine. So she is off chemo altogether right now. Next week they go on holiday so no appointment - next is the 21st.
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Normal Counts and Emmy Nominated?
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ANNGREGORY74
... o confess it was a bit of shock hearing that all of Ann's counts were normal. We have lived with horrible CBC numbers for the last year almost and you just get used to seeing low RBC or hGB numbers. I don't want to give anyone the wrong impression though. I love Ann and believe in her more than anyone else in the world. So now that the baby stem ce ...
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Chemotherapy - ABVD - day 14, th ...
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NeilW
... chemo this past week as my neutrophil (these are the most abundant type of white blood cells and form an integral part of the immune system) counts dropped to a new all time low of 0.7 a healthy persons neutrophil counts are in the range of 2.0 to 8.0 mind for the most part has been hovering in the range of 1.6-1.7 through chemo and for them to dr ...
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Medical Update
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Angus
... daily Mercapturine (6-MP). This is probably due to the last batch of Dexamethasone. Next appointment is next week – the rhythm seems to be that if the neutrophil count is too low to take the MTX and 6-MP, then the next appointment is after a week to see if she can resume them. But if her counts are good, then she’ll have a two week respite until th ...
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hematologist visit
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NeilW
hematologist visit note: after 7 months of chemotherapy looks like my neutrophil counts have finally dropped to the point where they need to give me the neupogen shots so I can continue on with my final month of chemo cycle 8.
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Feeling Down
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Kelly
... go through a fever work up where they run lots of tests to find out if there is any infection brewing. They also started an antibiotic and I've been on it for 3 days and the low grade fever is finally gone. I got some platelets on Tuesday and because it was not type specific, I had what looked like the start of a rash with a bunch of red spots on ...
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