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SUBMITTER: Inaba H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5834143 | biostudies-other | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Inaba H H Pei D D Wolf J J Howard S C SC Hayden R T RT Go M M Varechtchouk O O Hahn T T Buaboonnam J J Metzger M L ML Rubnitz J E JE Ribeiro R C RC Sandlund J T JT Jeha S S Cheng C C Evans W E WE Relling M V MV Pui C-H CH
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology 20170201 2
<h4>Background</h4>Comprehensive studies on neutropenia and infection-related complications in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are lacking.<h4>Patients and methods</h4>We evaluated infection-related complications that were grade ≥3 on National Cancer Institute's Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (version 3.0) and their risk factors in 409 children with newly diagnosed ALL throughout the treatment period.<h4>Results</h4>Of the 2420 infection episodes, febrile neutrop ...[more]