Day 7

By Gail Louise Dempsey

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639857273
• ISBN13: 9781639857272
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Fulton Books
• Length: 20 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"