Kadcyla - did you need blood labs?

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I did neoadjuvant TCHP, surgery, in rads, will start Kadcyla soon.

Kadcyla is scheduled, but either I wasn’t told to get bloodwork done for it OR plausibly they told me to and I forgot.

Important context, my hospital has a policy that blood labs for chemo have to be done a couple days prior to the infusion. They don’t draw blood and do labs as part of the regular chemo appt. I realize this is unusual.

I don’t want to show up for my first Kadcyla infusion and find out, oh shit, I was supposed to get labwork done and dropped the ball, oops. (But I also don’t want to call and ask for a bunch of bloodwork I don’t even need.)

Edit to add: Ok, so I’ll be calling them about it then. Thanks all!

Posted Oct 30, 2025, 4:01 PM UTC

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