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Is anaemia a common side effect of treatment?

Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Jul 30, 2025 | Replies (6)

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Hi Sue,

Interesting info, I have had low RBCs too since 2008 where I had 35 rounds (7weeks) of Photon radiation for a total of 70Gy and 3 rounds of cisplatin chemo for tonsil cancer but no surgery for that one. I did have about five times where I was in the normal range near the very bottom in the fifteen times I have been tested since 2008.
I also, have been diagnosis with ulcerative colitis in 2017 but it has been in complete remission and had two colonoscopies one being this last February 2025 and both came back total clean.

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Congrats on your clean colonoscopies @roblem ! It's interesting about running borderline anemia since radiation and chemo. I didn't even have a particularly suppressive chemo as mine was a targeted therapy with Cetuximab. Perhaps some of us just run better on a lower red count......don't need that hi-test blood.