Chemo worries

Sorry EDIT** the carboplatin is 3 weekly NOT the pendrolizumab. I will have that weekly alongside the paclaxital x

Hi MissK

Your oncologist is the best person to advise you on how your treatment will change your infection risk. On the basis they don’t usually need you to have Filgastrim injections alongside those drugs, I am guessing most people’s neutrophils stay up during treatment. Obviously avoid people who have signs of infection and take care around food hygiene but I wouldn’t expect you to be limited from seeing your grandchildren. 

I can’t advise on a PICC as I opted for a port. I didn’t have carboplatin. I have had Paclitaxel twice. First in the primary setting and then along with Pembrolizumab when they discovered I had liver mets to add to the lot of TNBC. It’s worth keeping a symptom diary so you can see the patterns. I found the relentless weekly nature of Paclitaxel a bit of a bind. Pembrolizumab doesn’t cause many symptoms unless and until it triggers an immunotherapy adverse event, which it did for me. I lived to tell the tale!