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Therapeutic strategies for chemotherapy-induced neutropenia in patients with solid tumors
- Source :
- Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy. 16:1505-1519
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2015.
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Abstract
- Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (CIN) is a common adverse event during treatment of cancer patients, associated with increased morbidity, mortality, health care costs and impairment of patients' quality of life which necessitate dose reductions.A computerized systematic literature search was performed through Medline, PubMed, Google Scholar and the Cochrane Library to identify peer reviewed publications relevant to CIN, pathophysiology and epidemiology, patient risk-assessment and existing treatment approaches. Additionally, emerging issues such as alternative therapeutic options and implications in elderly care were addressed.Although CIN represents a common adverse event in the management of patients with solid tumors, the heterogeneity in clinical practice across different settings underlines the need to improve existing tools for accurate patient classification. Moreover, the definition of the optimal implementation of out-patient treatment and the use of colony-stimulating factor as add-on treatment together with antibiotics should be further investigated in order to accumulate more solid data. Finally, physician education is required to ensure that scientific knowledge is implemented in the daily clinical practice.
- Subjects :
- Risk
medicine.medical_specialty
Neutropenia
MEDLINE
Antineoplastic Agents
Cochrane Library
Quality of life (healthcare)
Neoplasms
Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor
Health care
Epidemiology
Ambulatory Care
Humans
Medicine
Pharmacology (medical)
Intensive care medicine
Adverse effect
Febrile Neutropenia
Pharmacology
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Surgery
Quality of Life
Drug Therapy, Combination
business
Risk assessment
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17447666 and 14656566
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f6356804e20c5502398552abd36b0a29