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Can Chemotherapy Or Avastin Cause Blood In Urine?

My husband has stage IV colon cancer with liver mets. He s been on Avastin and FU5 for six months. He has responded pretty well to chemo, since he started with an almost 3000 CEA and now it is 212. Yesterday he asked me to look at his urine, as he thinks there is blood in it. It was in fact redish , but I really don t know if it is blood or just a very dark yellow. He has had nose bleds and even some lesions in his arms that bleed, and I know it is the Avastin. Does chemo or Avastin also cause blood in the urine? And.... does this mean he might be getting worse? My biggest problem are my two stepdaughters who are hospice nurses and have been seeing death hovering since day one, and they just scare ME to death. I am not naive and know my husband will not live 20 years, but neither I see him dying.
posted on Thu, 22 Sep 2016
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Hi and welcome to HCM.
Yes, chemotherapy may vause urine changes from pain, till blood in urine and this is probbale cause. However, this may be also consequance of some other things such as tumor progression urinary stone or uroinfection. He should drink plenty of fluids and raspberry juice or tea and if this persist he should reevaluate colon and do uroculture and kidneys ultrasound.

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Can Chemotherapy Or Avastin Cause Blood In Urine?

Hi and welcome to HCM. Yes, chemotherapy may vause urine changes from pain, till blood in urine and this is probbale cause. However, this may be also consequance of some other things such as tumor progression urinary stone or uroinfection. He should drink plenty of fluids and raspberry juice or tea and if this persist he should reevaluate colon and do uroculture and kidneys ultrasound. I hope I have answered you query. Wish you good heatlh. Regards