Suggest Treatment For Raised Platelets Levels While Taking Stivarga

Posted on Fri, 14 Oct 2016

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Question : can platelets be raised from taking stivarga. is stivarga a last resort med.

Answered by Dr. Deepak Sundriyal (5 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Hello dear. Stivarga is not a platelet enhancer

Detailed Answer:
Hello dear. I have gone through the details.

Stivarga is a drug used as a last line of therapy in metastatic colorectal tumors. It is not used to increase platelets counts.

Please let me know if you've any further queries

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Arnab Banerjee