Gram-negative organism is a common isolate in cancer children with febrile neutropenia, which is resistant to first-line antibiotic cefepime. Meropenem is most sensitive antibiotic and ESBL's are sensitive to piperacillin-tazobactam.
Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) is currently the only curative option for thalassemia major (TM) and sickle cell disease (SCD). We report our experience of using pretransplant immune suppression (PTIS), augmented Johns Hopkins conditioning, and posttransplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy) as graft‐versus‐host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis for matched unrelated donor (MUD) transplant in TM/SCD. At a median follow‐up of 307.5 days (range 251‐395), all patients (three TM, one SCD) are alive and disease free. MUD HSCT with PTIS, augmented Johns Hopkins conditioning, and PTCy as GvHD prophylaxis is a promising way of treating patients with hemoglobinopathies with low regimen‐related toxicity (RRT), no risk of graft failure (GF) and minimal GvHD rates.
Objectives To study the impact of the extent of CRS [complete Debulking (CD), optimal Debulking (OD)<1cm, or suboptimal Debulking (SOD) >1cm residual disease] on progression free (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in advanced EOC, PPC and FTC treated at AUBMC 1998-2018. Methods We retrospectively reviewed all patients with advanced disease who underwent either Primary debulking surgery (PDS) or if they had large tumor burden/multiple comorbidities/poor performance status, they received neoadjuvant chemotherapy and interval debulking surgery (NACT+IDS).
ResultsOf 300 patients with EOC/PPC/FTC, 220 had advanced stages (IIIB-IV). 66.4% had CD, 29.7% OD and 2.6% SOD. Results are shown in image 1 and tables 2 and 3. Median survival is expressed in months. In stage IIIC, CD led to a significantly higher PFS compared to OD (image 1) (P-value=0.015). However, this increase in PFS was only seen after IDS (table 2) (P-value in IDS=0.009). Once a CD was reached, There was no statistically significant increase in PFS regardless of timing of CRS (Image 3) (Pvalue=0.775). OS was not affected by extent of CRS (Image 1).
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