“…We observed that patients with different types of cancer, that is haematological malignancies and/or non-haematological malignancies (74.3%) because of their immunocompromised status, were much more susceptible to candidaemia than immunocompetent children, which corresponds with other studies. 4,6,20 In fact, 78% of cancer patients received chemotherapy, corticosteroids, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy or prophylaxis, which was attributed to the observed high correlation of cancer with candidaemia. In agreement with other reports, most patients examined in the current study had established healthcare-associated risk factors for the development of candidaemia, such as indwelling CVC (97%, P = 1), mechanical ventilation (40%; P < .0001) and TPN (32%; P < .0001) when the blood culture was obtained.…”