Abstract:Existing literature on febrile neutropenia (FN) has categorized patients with acute leukemia or those undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT) as being high risk for severe infection, bacteremia, and poor outcomes. Comprehensive studies of infection risk in pediatric high-risk neuroblastoma (NB-HR) during induction chemotherapy are limited, and mostly merged within the solid tumor (ST) group. Therefore, it is unclear whether infectious complications and outcomes for NB-HR are the same as in other … Show more
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