-897 ), the first node in the “Yes” pathway for “Significant concerns about alopecia or neutropenia” should have read, “Platinum/ pemetrexed + bevacizumab” (page 894). The editorial office apologizes for this error. A corrected copy of the editorial is
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Jeffrey Crawford
, the NCCN Guidelines Panel initially established the febrile neutropenia threshold for use of myeloid growth factors at 20%; this standard has now been adopted by virtually all other guidelines committees. Moreover, it was the NCCN Panel who stressed
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389 389 10.6004/jnccn.2004.0032 Fever and Neutropenia Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology 9 2004 2 2 5 5 390 390 390 390 10.6004/jnccn.2004.0033 Point: Fluoroquinolone-Based Antibacterial Chemoprophylaxis in Neutropenic Cancer Patients Works
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Lindsey Robert Baden, William Bensinger, Michael Angarone, Corey Casper, Erik R. Dubberke, Alison G. Freifeld, Ramiro Garzon, John N. Greene, John P. Greer, James I. Ito, Judith E. Karp, Daniel R. Kaul, Earl King, Emily Mackler, Kieren A. Marr, Jose G. Montoya, Ashley Morris-Engemann, Peter G. Pappas, Ken Rolston, Brahm Segal, Susan K. Seo, Sankar Swaminathan, Maoko Naganuma and Dorothy A. Shead
Infectious diseases are important causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with cancer. In certain instances, the malignancy itself can predispose patients to severe or recurrent infections. Neutropenia has been recognized for many decades as a major
Gary H. Lyman
patients with breast cancer showed that the biosimilar filgrastim was equally effective as the reference product in the prevention of neutropenia in patients receiving myelosuppressive chemotherapy. 3 Filgrastim-sndz was subsequently approved for the
Nishanth Thalambedu, Waqas Ullah, Ammar Ashfaq, Yasir Khan, Mishal Shaukat and Qian Zhang
: Panobinostat is associated with a substantially higher odds of anemia, thrombocytopenia, fatigue and diarrhea. However, it has a 75% lower risk of neutropenia and 10% lower risk of grade 3 and 4 complications. Figure 1 Odds ratio of grade 3 and grade 4
Ko Maung, Nelson Jen An Chao, Kelly Corbet, Ashley Morris Engemann, Cristina Gasparetto, Mitchell Horwitz, Yubin Kang, Gwynn Douglas Long, Richard D Lopez, David Rizzieri, Stefanie Sarantopoulos, Keith M. Sullivan, Anthony Derek Sung and Taewoong Choi
-free melphalan and thirty-six received generic melphalan; both groups had similar demographics, performance status and ISS stage ( Table 1 ). There was no statistically significant difference in time to count recovery, toxicities (mucositis, febrile neutropenia
Philip E. Lammers and Leora Horn
years) had improved median PFS and RR but no improvement in median OS. 11 The most common grade 3 or higher AEs in the bevacizumab arm were neutropenia (26%), hypertension (7%), febrile neutropenia (5%), and bleeding events (4%). 9 Compared with
Jeremy Lund, Angela Pearson and Georgia Keriazes
readmitting diagnosis or ICD-9 code. Criteria for CRR included diagnosis of febrile neutropenia, other known toxicity of administered chemotherapy agent, and documented diagnosis of CRR by the oncologist. A multidisciplinary panel (medical oncologist, oncology
