RT Book, Section
A1 W. Finberg, Robert
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141405236
T1 INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH CANCER
T2 Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259835971
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141405236
RD 2025/04/23
AB Infections  are  a  common  cause  of  death  and  an  even  more  common  cause  of  morbidity  in  patients  with  a  wide  variety  of  neoplasms.  Autopsy  studies  show  that  most  deaths  from  acute  leukemia  and  half  of  deaths  from  lymphoma  are  caused  directly  by  infection.  With  more  intensive  chemotherapy,  patients  with  solid  tumors  have  also  become  more  likely  to  die  of  infection.  Fortunately,  an  evolving  approach  to  prevention  and  treatment  of  infectious  complications  of  cancer  has  decreased  infection-associated  mortality  rates  and  will  probably  continue  to  do  so.  This  accomplishment  has  resulted  from  three  major  steps: