Prevalence of thrombocytopenia among Indian patients who are on chemotherapeutic drugs in five cities of India: A cross sectional descriptive study

Abstract

Background: Chemotherapeutic drugs are chemical drugs used in management of cancer, these drugs are chemotoxic and has varied number of adverse effects. Thrombocytopenia is one such adverse effect, thrombocytopenia is the condition in which the platelets counts are less than few lakhs and cause the symptoms of the bleeding. The present study desiged to find the prevalence of thrombocytopenia among Indians who are on chemotherapeutic drugs.
Materials and Methods: a descriptive cross section survey design used to identify the prevalence rate of thrombocytopenia among patients who are on chemotherapeutic drugs in India the cities studied are Lakhimpur 268 patients, Panipat 357 patients, Sonipat 384 patients, Gohana 291 patients, Delhi 445 patients, a total 1745 patients were under chemotherapeutic drugs of which 281 patients developed thrombocytopenia, in the samples collected analyzed at various selected diagnostic centers.