Can chemotherapy be postponed for breast cancer patients?

I am a breast cancer patient. Eight years ago, I had surgery on my right side, and then I had six treatments. According to the doctor's treatment plan, I had a 28-day course of treatment. However, after three treatments, I was seriously anemic. I had a white injection after a blood transfusion, and the fourth treatment was extended by five days, and then the fifth treatment caught up with the Chinese New Year. You know, I can't eat or sleep well during chemotherapy, so I've been waiting for the end of the year. In August this year, my left side was also removed. Fortunately, there was no lymphatic metastasis this time, so I took endocrine therapy after surgery!

Breast cancer is one of several cancers with good curative effect at present. As long as you can persist in treatment, eat reasonably and keep an optimistic attitude, the survival rate is very high, and you must not have psychological burden!

I wish you a speedy recovery, and people in the same boat sincerely pray for you! [praying]

I was worried about this problem before. Under normal circumstances, chemotherapy is once every three weeks, 2 1 day, up to 35 days.

I put it off for the first time in order to catch the May Day holiday. Because of the epidemic, you are not allowed to leave the hospital during your hospitalization. If you go home that day and the clinic is closed, it can only be postponed for six days. That's the third course of treatment.

The second delay was due to the need for radiotherapy, and chemotherapy could not be done at the same time, so this time it was postponed by 2 1 day.

At that time, I was worried that delayed chemotherapy might lead to the rebound or development of metastatic lesions.

When I went back to the hospital to continue chemotherapy after radiotherapy, I had a B-ultrasound examination. The results of B-ultrasound showed that the metastasis did not progress, that is to say, although it was delayed for one cycle, it did not cause the duplication of metastasis.

Of course, before I put it off, I had done chemotherapy five times. Considering my illness, the doctor gave me radiotherapy and postponed chemotherapy.

Therefore, if you postpone chemotherapy, you must communicate with the doctor first, and then decide whether you need to postpone chemotherapy under the guidance of the doctor.

If it is because of the epidemic, a short delay should be possible, but treatment should continue.

Patients who are not unwell can also be appropriately extended for a few days, because cancer patients are more likely to be infected with novel coronavirus, avoiding the peak period of coronavirus, and there will be peak periods and low peak periods. I hope everyone can tide over the difficulties safely.

Hello, this pneumonia epidemic has touched the hearts of all compatriots, and we also understand the concerns of cancer patients and their families. In principle, the established chemotherapy cycle should be completed unless there are special circumstances such as intolerable side effects. The epidemic situation may have some influence on the treatment, but it is not recommended that you omit the follow-up chemotherapy (of course, I am not sure about the treatment plan formulated by your attending doctor). So I suggest you get in touch with your doctor by phone or WeChat and ask about the start time of the fifth chemotherapy and the reservation of beds. , or whether chemotherapy can be done directly in the outpatient department. It is understood that in addition to fever clinics, other departments of the hospital have also improved measures to prevent and control infections and strengthened disinfection. Patients who meet the requirements of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in the near future should attach great importance to disinfection and protection of patients and medical staff. When making an appointment, the patient's time in the waiting area is also specially shortened. If you go to the hospital, you should also pay attention to safety, strengthen protection, wear a mask, wash your hands frequently and take disinfection measures. I wish you a smooth completion of treatment and an early recovery! Finally, once again pay tribute to all the front-line medical staff. Let's look forward to an early victory in this battle. The difficulty will definitely pass. Come on!

Chemotherapy is 2 1 day. Can it be advanced or postponed?

Any chemotherapy drug, or the combination of several chemotherapy drugs, can only destroy a fixed proportion of tumor cells in each course of treatment.

A very popular metaphor is that if chemotherapy can destroy 50% of tumor cells once, then only 50% of tumor cells can be destroyed next time, although the tumor load has been greatly reduced because of previous chemotherapy.

Then, in an ideal state, after the first course of treatment, 50% of tumor cells remain, after the second course of treatment, 25% remain, after the third course of treatment, 65,438+02.5%, the fourth, the fifth, and finally a little tumor cells remain, which needs to be removed by the autoimmune system.

However, we are not living in an ideal world. Tumor cells will continue to proliferate after being destroyed by chemotherapy drugs, that is to say, they will grow as they fight. Every chemotherapy is actually a race against time and stubborn tumor cells. If you stop halfway for no reason, you may lose the game, and the consequences are unimaginable!

Chemotherapy was not carried out on time according to 2 1 day. Does a delay of a few days affect the curative effect?

In life, there may indeed be many reasons for delaying chemotherapy, such as: white blood cells and platelets are not up to standard, infection occurs, there is no bed, holidays and other reasons. The chemotherapy cycle is set according to the duration of toxic and side effects of chemotherapy drugs, the recovery time of human body and the tumor doubling time. Generally speaking, delaying chemotherapy for a few days will not have much effect on the curative effect, but if chemotherapy is postponed several times, or "rest" at home for one or two months during treatment, the curative effect will be affected.