When myelosuppression occurs as a result of chemotherapy, does it occur right away or is it more likely to occur after several cycles? how long can it last and are there ways to treat it or does the patient have to just wait until counts go back up?

Nearly all chemotherapy can suppress bone marrow function, but the time to suppression varies with the agent, dose and frequency of administration. Most of the time if your pretreatment blood numbers are low, the chemo that day is withheld or dose lowered until numbers climb up. There is some medication that is felt to minimize bone marrow suppression from chemo but I've had no experience with it