Question: Why must I be off of Ibrutinib three days before, and three days after, surgery for skin cancer.
Basal Cell on my nose ?
Mohs Surgery
Question: Why must I be off of Ibrutinib three days before, and three days after, surgery for skin cancer.
Basal Cell on my nose ?
Mohs Surgery
You always have to go off Ibrutinib for any procedures, surgery or dental work. Bleeding factor.
Just concerned, I don’t want the the Leukemia cells to grow.
They may a tiny bit but it's ok for most. And it's temporary. Worse to not stop it.
My husband has this concern so much so the first time he didn’t stop the ibrutinib as instructed and they couldn’t do the procedure as even the needle prick site for the numbing was bleeding. Next time he stopped a day before and then took them straight after procedure (at his usual time). He bled for days out of the sites and they took forever to heal. Next time he stopped 2 days beforehand and then continued after procedure- same issues. This time he’s following the rules and stopped them 3 days beforehand and assured me he won’t start back up for 4 days. He’s off now for the procedure. His platelets usually hover around 100 on ibrutinib. So basically what I’m telling you is the bleed risk and further complications are real and there doesn’t seem to be a way around it - not for him anyway. Good luck and don’t stress. The docs say to stop it for this time and then restart / follow their instructions and get your skin cancer cut out safely.