Low neutrophils are a problem. My husband was in a Phase 1 trial for immunotherapy and they wouldn’t give him the meds if his neutrophil count was low. When it was borderline, the nurse used to tell my husband to walk up and down stairs for five minutes or so, it seemed this boosted the counts. I’m not saying you should try this, but we used to call them the “pesky Phils.” Chemo really did a number on my husband with the pesky Phil’s. He was for a whole week unable to start his deep-veined thrombosis injection (another side effect of his cancer) waiting for his white blood cell count to go up.

After the immunotherapy trial failed, my husband was in a second trial, for Selinexor. After that he was placed on another from of oral chemo. He would have lived a bit longer if aspiration pneumonia did not get him. It’s a tough road to walk but it did buy him time.