Abstract:Background:
Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a dreaded complication of cancer chemotherapy. There has been a lot of improvement in supportive care in FN that has drastically reduced the infection-related mortality in these patients. The focus now is on reducing infection-related morbidity, healthcare costs and optimizing the quality of life of the child as well as their family during these episodes. In this study, biomarkers were studied as predictors of outcome so that outcome can be predicted earlier,… Show more
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