Being myself a 16-year breast cancer survivor who experienced chemotherapy at that point, I totally concur with you that it's very typical; I think it's well known that the blood count goes down and treatment is interrupted, etc. But that to me is not necessarily.... I think that's one category; it doesn't necessarily talk about other drugs that are perhaps less expected or not as well known to have almost automatic adverse reactions on a temporary basis due to that particular process in that drug, so would there not be cases in which we would not typically expect to have that?
I think you're making a good point, but I also think there could be cases and drugs that are not known to cause adverse reactions. But if we had a bigger sampling or enhanced knowledge from all health care professionals as well as the patients, we might have a better sampling of what is going on out there. Again there is this issue of frequency; I don't think it's been totally addressed yet. Does it make a difference? Can you say that knowing how frequently a drug has adverse reactions doesn't make a difference in some cases?
Maybe someone else can address it.