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Annals of Oncology 2005 16(2):179-180; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdi067
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© 2005 European Society for Medical Oncology

Outpatient management in patients with neutropenia after intensive chemotherapy—is it safe?

W. V. Kern*

Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

* (; Email: kern@medizin.ukl.uni-freiburg.de)

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Bone marrow involvement and intensive chemotherapy for remission induction and post-remission consolidation render the patient with acute leukemia (AL) highly vulnerable to fever and infection. Often, neutropenia lasts 3 weeks or longer, and the risk of developing fever approaches 100%. Patients with allogeneic and autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (alloPBSCT and autoPBSCT) today often have shorter periods of neutropenia. In autoPBSCT patients, for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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