Triple negative breast cancer Rash

Hi Agata 

i am sorry you are going through this. I have triple negative breast cancer and had a reaction to the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab  

If I am understanding this correctly, it will likely be the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab that is causing your rash, not the chemo. The normal treatment plan is to continue with this drug on its own after surgery. Reactions to immunotherapy can be quite hard to deal with, which is why your doctors have paused your treatment. They have probably given you steroid cream, a moisturiser and antihistamines. Maybe also some tablet steroids. Whether you can carry on with immunotherapy will depend on how quickly the rash returns to normal and whether you develop any other reactions to the immunotherapy. It might be they decide to just give you the chemo without immunotherapy. 

Our community is divided into forums by cancer type. You might like to join our Breast cancer forum  and/or Triple negative breast cancer forum to get additional peer support. 

Hi Coddfish,

Thank you for prompt reply.

I have had the same immunotheraphy drug as you. 

They had to give me steroid as strong dosage injection as no response to creams or tablets.

Did you have to stop your immunotheraphy?

They told me today I have to stop it completly as my reaction is very severe, my rash is all over.

How long did you have your treatments now?

Yes I had to stop too. My issue started with an acute kidney injury / nephritis. Steroids did eventually resolve it. This was in 2022. I was on my 6th dose of pembro at the time. If you click on my name you can read my story.