Day 7 (Hardback)
Hardcover 20 pages English Sep 13, 2022
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Day 7 is about a main character named Victor who has been diagnosed with cancer. The book begins just after one of his chemotherapy treatments, when Victor is headed out on a journey, experiences a low white blood cell count, and then receives a drug to boost his white blood cell count back up to a normal level.Chemotherapy patients typically experience a low point in their white blood cell count after each treatment. The low point is called the nadir, and it often occurs at about day 7 after treatment. Many chemotherapy patients receive a drug (either as a shot or a patch) called pegfilgrastim, which stimulates the production of white blood cells, and thus results in raising the white blood cell count. Pegfilgrastim is a longer-acting version of the earlier generation drug filgrastim. A polyethylene glycol (PEG) molecule is attached to the filgrastim, resulting in pegfilgrastim, which does not get filtered out of the human body as quickly and is therefore a longer-acting drug. Pegfilgrastim is the generic name of the drug, which is sold under many brand names.And now let us go together with Victor on his journey.
- Author:
- Gail Louise Dempsey
- Publisher:
- Fulton Books
- Publication Date:
- Sep 13, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 20 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1639857273
- ISBN-13:
- 9781639857272