my dad just went through 8 hours of chemo and the collection part of the stem cell transplant. he has a port in his chest for the rest of the treatment. just found a lump on his arm, not too big but definitely not small. any idea of what it can be caused from? should we take him to the ER?
Hi! Thanks for writing to us! You did not mention your fathers primary disease for which the chemotherapy was given; but as stem cell transplantation is involved, I would consider it as a case of leukemia or multiple myeloma. Therefore, a lump on the arm following chemotherapy in a patient with central venous line would be due to