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In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading."Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so. ... Read more

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Univ. of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. Textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the historical aspects, recent developments, and current concepts in the management of cancer patients with fever and neutropenia. For oncologists, hemato-oncologists, and specialists in infectious diseases. ... Read more

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Febrile neutropenia is a common complication in cancer patients and has been studied for more than 30 years. This is a field of cancer in which much progress in supportive care has been made, significantly reducing the morbidity and mortality from infections. Tremendous numbers of patients have already benefited from specific antineoplastic therapy and an even greater number could benefit from the prevention of infection or from the allevation of symptoms as a result of effective prophylaxis or adequate therapeutic strategies. This book evaluates the achievements in the past and identifies the major existing problems. It gives an overview of therapeutic possibilities and presents new concepts and strategies for making further progress. ... Read more

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The effective prevention, diagnosis, and management of alloimmune cytopenias has become a team effort involving hematologists, obstetricians, pediatricians, immunologists, laboratory technicians, midwives, and research scientists. This book has been written by experts in their respective fields to bring together the issues of pathogenesis, epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and clinical management. This comprehensive but accessible account is extensively cross-referenced to emphasize the links between pathogenesis and clinical sequels, between epidemiology and the rationale for screening programs, and between diagnosis and therapeutic intervention. ... Read more

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Title: Immunocompromise brings neutropenias, infections in its wake. (Knowing What to Expect).
Author: Damian McNamara
Publication: Pediatric News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2003
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 37Issue: 5Page: 14(1)

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Title: Neutropenia is preventable: chemo doses often suboptimal in early breast Ca.(Clinical Rounds)
Author: Bruce Jancin
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 37Issue: 5Page: 22(1)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Febrile neutropenia is the development of fever, often with other signs of infection, in a patient with neutropenia, an abnormally low number of neutrophil granulocytes (a type of white blood cell) in the blood. The term neutropenic sepsis is also applied, although it tends to be reserved for patients who are less well. Fever is actually caused by infection in 50% of cases, and bacteremia (bacteria in the bloodstream) may be present in as many as 20% of all patients with an absolute neutrophil count under 1.0. ... Read more

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Title: Acute lymphocytic leukemia after fulminant varicella associated with severe neutropenia.
Author: David A. Helft
Publication: Southern Medical Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Southern Medical Association
Volume: 95Issue: 9Page: 1074(2)

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Neutropenia," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Neutropenia in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Neutropenia when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Neutropenia, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Title: Cefepime monotherapy is as effective as ceftriaxone plus amikacin in pediatric patients with cancer and high-risk febrile neutropenia: a randomized comparison.(Clinical report)
Author: Carlos Alberto Pires Pereira
Publication: American Journal of Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2008
Publisher: Science Publications
Volume: 4Issue: 4Page: 239(7)

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Supportive care of the cancer patient begins with the diagnosis of cancer and terminates with the end of life. The supportive care is for symptoms related to the cancer and/or its treatment; physical, psychosocial and emotional issues associated with the cancer. Patients with cancer, in general, are living longer. Even those with advanced, metastatic disease have an increase in their survival. This, in part, is due to better therapies, novel treatments and the multimodality approaches to treating many cancers. In Supportive Care in Cancer Therapy, edited by David Ettinger, the contributors provide an up-to-date, concise review of specific consequences of cancer and its treatment. The chapters will allow the reader to better understand the sequelae associated with all aspects of cancer and how to treat them in order to achieve control of symptoms and provide psychosocial care to improve the quality of life of the cancer patient. In addition, the reader will gain information on the care of the older patient as well as the dying patient.