What to do if breast cancer causes fever

What should I do if I have a fever due to breast cancer?

If breast cancer is in the advanced stage, tumor fever may also occur, which will also cause fever, but the fever temperature is generally not too high, about 38 degrees low fever. You can use heat-clearing and detoxifying and antipyretic drugs, such as oral Xinhuang tablets, which are Chinese patent medicines with better effects. Symptomatic treatment should be given according to different causes of fever.

If the white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets are reduced, it is necessary to be alert to bone marrow abnormalities. If necessary, bone marrow puncture diagnosis is required, and active whitening and platelet drug treatment is required. Breast cancer is a malignant tumor of the breast.

What are the targeted drugs for breast cancer treatment?

There are many drugs for targeted treatment of breast cancer. Herceptin, lapatinib, mixed preparations and some unlisted drugs have been updated for HER2. At present, HER-2 resistant targeted drugs are divided into large molecule monoclonal antibodies, trastuzumab, pertuzumab, ADCT-DM1 and TKI lapatinib, pyrotinib, neratinib, tucatinib, etc. .Third, other targeted drugs also include immune checkpoint inhibitors, mainly targeting PD-1 or PD-L, but these immune checkpoint inhibitors have no indications in early breast cancer, and are mainly targeted at recurrent metastatic breast cancer.

Symptoms of advanced breast cancer?

Patients with advanced breast cancer have obvious symptoms, mainly manifested as breast pain, which is unbearable. The skin may also develop orange skin changes and even dimples.

The main clinical symptoms of patients are closely related to the metastasis of distant organs. Patients with lung metastasis will experience symptoms such as cough, sputum, chest tightness, etc. Advanced breast cancer is characterized by the metastasis of distant organs, which further leads to organ failure and endangers the patient's life.