In an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care®, Kashyap Patel, MD, Carolina Blood and Cancer Care, discussed risk factors that contribute to the development of neutropenia, how to minimize ...

In a series of interviews with MD Magazine, Yoav Golan, MD, MS, FIDSA, discussed some health risks for patients with acute myeloid leukemia who are experiencing neutropenia. In a series of interviews ...

Neutropenia is a hematological disorder defined as a reduction in the absolute number of neutrophils in the blood. The most common causes of neutropenia are those that are acquired, including viral ...

Neutropenia represents an abnormally low level of neutrophils in the blood. This condition can be graded as mild, moderate, and severe, corresponding respectively to absolute neutrophil count values ...

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has bulked up its advice to clinicians about managing patients who undergo chemotherapy. The organization has issued a new guideline on how and when to ...

Between January 2001 and December 2002, LACHIS provided 134 courses of long-term home antimicrobial therapy for osteomyelitis. No cases of neutropenia were reported for the 121 courses of ...

Furthermore, costs vary with the perspective adopted: providers, payers, patients, or society at large. If costs borne by patients and their informal caregivers during outpatient treatment exceed ...

African American women with benign ethnic neutropenia had clinical benefit with Ibrance (palbociclib) in combination with endocrine therapy to treat advanced breast cancer. Ibrance (palbociclib) was ...

Use of corticosteroids, certain dermatologic or mucosal conditions, and antibiotics all appeared to increase risk for chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia among a cohort of patients undergoing ...

Improved Metastasis-Free and Survival Outcomes With Early Salvage Radiotherapy in Men With Detectable Prostate-Specific Antigen After Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer We identified 8,745 patients age ...