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"I'm on my third round of chemotherapy, and I've been diagnosed with anemia. I feel very tired and weak. Why does chemo cause anemia? Is there anything I can do to feel better?"
| Your bone marrow makes blood cells, including red blood cells. Chemotherapy can damage your bone marrow. When this happens, your body makes fewer red blood cells or destroys them before their normal life span is over.
Your body's ability to produce platelets — a blood cell that plays an important role in forming clots — also may decrease, so you're more likely to bleed, further reducing your red blood cell levels.
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