Hi,
My mum got secondary breast cancer and just started her 2nd treatment of Gemcitabine.
She had high temperature and high heart rate did anyone else have these side effect with the treatment ?
Hi Tigerlily welcome to the forum and sorry to hear how rough things are for your mum.
I imagine that any of the chemo treatments can cause these side effects but if you wanted to post in the Chemo thread in the Breast Cancer thread maybe someone in there may be able to discuss further with you if they have had this type of chemo. I have include a link and you need only click this to take you straight to the Chemo thread and then post your question in there.
If that doesn't help to get some information then please think about giving the Macmillan Line a call and see if they have any further info they can help with. 08088080000.
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