Herceptin treatments stopped, neutrophil counts dropped to 1.4 this week

[Christine Walas]

Greetings!

My neutrophil counts were at 1.4 today, additional herceptin treatments are on hold.
Apparently, herceptin can cause a drop in white blood counts. However, my medical team has not seen this problem before and need to research the affect of drugs used to increase my WBC with herceptin.

I hope that by Tuesday or Wednesday we will have some answers.


This link has information on possible side affects related to herceptin.

http://www.rocheuk.com/ProductDB/Documents/rx/pil/Herceptin_PIL.pdf
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Forever His,
Christine

DCIS/IDC/Pagets Disease
Lumpectomy - No clear margins
Mastectomy left breast 6/23/06 – IDC at cauterized margin
Two sentinel Node biopsy - clear
HER/2/Neu +3 over expression
Taxotere/Cytoxan 8/11/06 – 10/13/06
Radiation 10/30 – 12/11
Herceptin 10/27 -

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