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2021-05-17 05:54:38
My father has advanced stage metastatic gall bladder cancer.He is recieving palliative treatment of 6 cycles of chemotherapy.Out of which 5 cycles were done easily but after 5 cycle he was covid positive.After delaying 2 weeks of chemo his last cycle started.Before the last chemo his platelets has dropped to 75000 and doctors are not advising chemotherapy right now.What will be the outcome of delaying chemotherapy?
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