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Help please? what is considered a fever for a cancer patient?
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Fever: Fever is when the temperature above the normal range. Definition for fever is the same for everybody, it does not matter whether you have cancer or not. However, when you are receiving chemotherapy, there would be a risk for you to be neutropenic/having low wbc. Thus, what i would tell my patients is to let me know if they have temperature 100.4 or above.
Answered 3/12/2020
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