If you have a cold or a flu could that delay you getting chemo treatments if you are fighting cancer?
anon in idaho asked:
Last week I had a port put inside my body so that could start chemo treatments for my cancer. A day or two after the operation, I somehow caught my mother’s nasty cold or flu. Could this cold or flu somehow delay my chemo treatments for my cancer? Why or why not?
Last week I had a port put inside my body so that could start chemo treatments for my cancer. A day or two after the operation, I somehow caught my mother’s nasty cold or flu. Could this cold or flu somehow delay my chemo treatments for my cancer? Why or why not?
Medical professionals, doctor’s,nurses, medical personnel or cancer surivors only please answer my question. Thank You.
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My wife had cancer. One of the major problems with most chemotherapy is that it depresses the bone marrow and the immune system takes a hit. Nowadays there are drugs that can stimulate the bone marrow so that anemia and immune suppression is not as bad.
It should not delay it ,because you don’t have the flu . Your Resistance is down from having the port fitted, its normal.