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Is Fever Common During Course Of Chemotherapy?

my mum is having two types of chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer , she is very sick all the time, doctors are struggling to control her sickness, shes just started her second course of chemo, could it be that the chemo is killing her aswell as the cancer??????
Tue, 28 Apr 2015
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Hi, dear
I have gone through your question. I can understand your concern. She has small cell cancer of lung. Fever is common while patient is on chemotherapy. Chemotherapy kills the cancer cells but along with that it also kill normal body cell. It causes suppression of normal bone marrow cells. It leads to frequent infection and fever. So higher antibiotics and antipyretic drugs are needed with chemotherapy. Consult your doctor and take treatment accordingly.
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Is Fever Common During Course Of Chemotherapy?

Hi, dear I have gone through your question. I can understand your concern. She has small cell cancer of lung. Fever is common while patient is on chemotherapy. Chemotherapy kills the cancer cells but along with that it also kill normal body cell. It causes suppression of normal bone marrow cells. It leads to frequent infection and fever. So higher antibiotics and antipyretic drugs are needed with chemotherapy. Consult your doctor and take treatment accordingly. Hope I have answered your question, if you have doubt then I will be happy to answer. Thanks for using health care magic. Wish you a very good health.