Wonder if anyone knows answer to this.......I've been called for annual flu jab is it ok to get it as Chemoradiation starting at end of August ?
Thanks
Turi
As Ray. Ring your CNS. GP might not know.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
I can guarantee the GP won't know
Yep!
BUT cancer research U.K. does.
It’s not a live vaccine so safe to take while on chemotherapy so do it.
www.cancerresearchuk.org/.../flu-vaccine
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
Thank you.I've not started treatment yet (end of Aug) so god help you all when I do although it will be good to have the daily contact with the team.I think I'm so nervous about it all the waiting is awful.I just want to be zapped as soon as possible and then I think about the side effects ! I can't tell you how good it is to know you folk are here to listen to my drivel !
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