Risk of developing chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia (FN) depends on patient-, treatment-, and disease-related characteristics. 1 In our prior investigation, several chronic comorbidities were associated with significantly increased FN
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Leila Family, Yanli Li, Lie Hong Chen, John H. Page, Zandra K. Klippel, and Chun Chao
Derek Weycker, Xiaoyan Li, Rich Barron, Hongsheng Wu, P.K. Morrow, Hairong Xu, Maureen Reiner, Jacob Garcia, Shivani K. Mhatre, and Gary H. Lyman
Background Neutropenia is a common side effect of myelosuppressive chemotherapy that increases the risk of infection, which is typically signaled by fever. When neutropenic patients develop fever (ie, febrile neutropenia [FN]), the likelihood
Sriman Swarup, Anita Sultan, Somedeb Ball, Francis Mogollon-Duffo, Nimesh Adhikari, Yin M. Myat, Myo H. Zaw, Catherine Jones, and Kyaw Z. Thein
) Conclusion: CDK 4/6 inhibitors–based regimen significantly contributed to all hematologic toxicities as well as febrile neutropenia. The improved efficacy outcomes and manageable toxicities with CDK 4/6 inhibitors are observed with proper supportive care and
Gary H. Lyman
Dr. Lyman has received research grant support from Amgen and GlaxoSmithKline and is on the speakers' bureau of Amgen and OrthoBiotech. References 1 Lyman GH Kuderer NM . Epidemiology of febrile neutropenia . Support Cancer Ther
Gary H. Lyman and Jessica Malone Kleiner
– 454 . 2. Lyman GH Morrison VA Dale DC . Risk of febrile neutropenia among patients with intermediate-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma receiving CHOP chemotherapy . Leuk Lymph 2003 ; 44 : 2069 – 2076 . 3. Lyman GH . Guidelines of
Akhil Jain, Sohiel Deshpande, Krishna Desai, Sabah Iqbal, Aisha Sultan, Monika Garg, Bohdan Baralo, and Rajesh Thirumaran
Background: Febrile neutropenia (FN) being a life-threatening complication of chemotherapeutic drugs, demands extraordinary and distinct care than non neutropenic and septic patients. We used the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database to
Pamala A. Pawloski, Cara L. McDermott, James H. Marshall, Vanita Pindolia, Catherine M. Lockhart, Catherine A. Panozzo, Jeffrey S. Brown, and Bernadette Eichelberger
Background Prophylaxis with the recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factors (G-CSFs) filgrastim and pegfilgrastim prevents chemotherapy-induced neutropenia; reduces febrile neutropenia (FN) risk and infection-related and early
Kimberly Rose Hedstrom, Margaret Rausa, Eric Gratias, and Stephen Hamilton
Background: The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) establishes standard of care for patients receiving anticancer therapy, and classifies regimens based on febrile neutropenia (FN) and emesis risks. eviCore healthcare licenses NCCN
Weijia Wang, Edward Li, Kim Campbell, and Ali McBride
Introduction: Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a major dose-limiting toxicity of myelosuppressive chemotherapy that can result in hospitalization, dose reductions or treatment delays and compromised clinical outcomes. National Comprehensive Cancer
Jeffrey Crawford, Pamela Sue Becker, James O. Armitage, Douglas W. Blayney, Julio Chavez, Peter Curtin, Shira Dinner, Thomas Fynan, Ivana Gojo, Elizabeth A. Griffiths, Shannon Hough, Dwight D. Kloth, David J. Kuter, Gary H. Lyman, Mary Mably, Sudipto Mukherjee, Shiven Patel, Lia E. Perez, Adam Poust, Raajit Rampal, Vivek Roy, Hope S. Rugo, Ayman A. Saad, Lee S. Schwartzberg, Sepideh Shayani, Mahsa Talbott, Saroj Vadhan-Raj, Sumithira Vasu, Martha Wadleigh, Peter Westervelt, Jennifer L. Burns, and Lenora Pluchino
progress to febrile neutropenia (FN; ≥38.3°C orally or ≥38.0°C duration over 1 hour), which is a major dose-limiting toxicity of chemotherapy that often requires prolonged hospitalization and broad-spectrum antibiotic use. 1 Occurrences of severe
