Can Radiation/chemotheraphy cause bleeding?!
Question: a friend had a surgery on his nose a month ago and recently started a chemotherapy and radiation therapy. This morning he had a bleeding on the affected area. What could have caused it?
Answers: a friend had a surgery on his nose a month ago and recently started a chemotherapy and radiation therapy. This morning he had a bleeding on the affected area. What could have caused it?
Radiation - - if the patient has already received full doses - can cause the mucosal membranes to become more "friable" which means more tender and liable to bleeding.
The chemotherapy (depending on which drugs are used in what doses) may lower the platelet count which could increase the risk of bleeding episodes. If your friend has "just started chemotherapy and radiation, it is probably too early for epistaxis (nose bleed) to be related to treatment.
It would help to know what type of malignancy was diagnosed.
Some people have nosebleeds unrelated to side effects of RT or chemo. Low humidity with winter heating can cause this too.
I know my chemo has caused bleeding. It's an angiogenesis inhibitor and has caused some minor bleeding a few times in the past.