Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia managed on outpatient basis
Published in Blood Weekly, July 13th, 2006
"We assessed the feasibility of outpatient chemotherapy and supportive care in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). All patients receiving curative intent chemotherapy between 09/01 and 10/02 and meeting our criteria received supportive care post induction chemotherapy as well as their entire consolidation chemotherapy cycles as outpatients," scientists writing in the journal Annals of Oncology reported.
"Patients received antimicrobial prophylaxis; those developing episodes of fever and not meeting the criteria for admission were treated with outpatient intravenous...
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