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In addition, neutropenia may affect your next round of chemotherapy. Particularly if your neutrophil level doesnât return to normal quickly enough. Your doctor may postpone chemotherapy or lower the dose. For neutropenia with a fever, your doctor may prescribe white blood cell growth factors.
As a patient about to undergo drug treatment for cancer, you are aware that chemotherapy may caused side effects. Fortunately, for the majority of patients, most of these side effects can be controlled and tolerated.One of the most serious potential side effects of chemotherapy is neutropenia (a low white blood cell count). As the chemotherapy destroys your cancer cells, it may also destroy your white blood cells.Neutropenia itself is not normally a danger to you. Over time, your body will replenish these destroyed white blood cells through regeneration of new cells in your bone marrow.s the chemotherapy destroys your cancer cells, it may also destroy your white blood cells. Neutropenia itself is not normally a danger to you. Over time, your body will replenish these destroyed white blood cells through regeneration of new cells in your bone marrow.