15 May 2009
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Here is a site with some good information on Cancer. It will definitely help you. Have a look.
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If you get a fever you need to contact your MD asap. It’s more of a concern of low white blood cell count that your body can’t fight off viruses or bacteria. I would notify your MD as early as possible because you need to and would want to avert any illnesses. good luck to you.
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It’s not the cancer, it’s the chemo and since you have thyroid cancer, you wouldn’t get chemo. You’d get radioactive iodine pill.
For you who doesn’t know anything about cancer, many of us have or had cancer and we are quite knowledgeable.
Here, I found something just for you:
Radioactive Iodine is given to the patient with thyroid cancer after their cancer has been removed. If there are any normal thyroid cells or thyroid cancer cells remain in the patient’s body (and any thyroid cancer cells retaining this ability to absorb iodine) then these cells will absorb and concentrate the radioactive "poisonous" iodine. Since all other cells of our bodies cannot absorb the toxic iodine, they are unharmed. The thyroid cancer cells, however, will concentrate the poison within themselves and the radioactivity destroys the cell from within. No sickness. No hair loss. No nausea. No diarrhea. No pain.You don’t go on chemo for thyroid cancer. You take radioactive iodine and it kills the cancerous thyroid cells if any are left after removal of thyroid.
It can be dangerous if you are on chemotherapy, since your immune system is basically trashed. Compromised is the word the oncologists use.
In any case I would get into see your doctor asap. He or she may want to rule out a much more serious infection.
Here’s what to watch out for.
http://www.cancer.ca/canada-wide/publications/alphabetical%20list%20of%20publications/~/media/CCS/Canada%20wide/Files%20List/English%20files%20heading/Library%20PDFs%20-%20English/Chemotherapy_Eng2009.ashx
15 May 2009 at 6:57 am