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Although the classic illness is a fairly benign acute febrile syndrome, it may be very painful—hence the English nickname, breakbone fever.
Filgrastim (recombinant methionyl human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor) has been shown to reduce the depth of the nadir ANC, shorten the duration of neutropenia, and reduce the risk of febrile neutropenia [ 3 ] , thereby maintaining chemotherapy dose [ 4 5 ] . Many patients with early-stage breast cancer do not receive the full chemotherapy dose intensity recommended in conventional adjuvant chemotherapy regimens [ 6 7 8 ] . Neutropenia is the primary reason for chemotherapy dose delays and reductions [ 1 6 7 ] .
Extensive bone marrow infiltration with cancer cells and anticancer therapy lead to immune incompetence in children with cancer [ 1 2 ] . Since the prognosis and overall survival of children with cancer have dramatically improved during past 30 years [ 3 ] , problems remain related to infections, mainly during leukopenic periods [ 3 4 5 ] . Causal pathogens of febrile neutropenia (FN), most frequently bacterial or fungal, are identified and confirmed by culture in 25-35% of the cases [ 3 6 ] . In other 15-25% of patients with FN, bacterial or fungal pathogens are suspected clinically.
Moreover, once it is decided to reduce or delay the dose, there is no way of knowing the rate of neutropenia or febrile neutropenia if the full dose of chemotherapy had been delivered.
"The million-dollar score, the million-dollar pop, the million-dollar payday," is the way Dick McMahon puts it to her in a febrile panic.
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