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Aurora Mirabile1, Gianmauro Numico2, Elvio G Russi3, Paolo Bossi4, Fulvio Crippa5, Almalina Bacigalupo6, Vitaliana De Sanctis7, Stefania Musso8, Anna Merlotti9, Maria Grazia Ghi10, Marco C Merlano11, Lisa Licitra12, Francesco Moretto13, Nerina Denaro14, Orietta Caspiani15, Michela Buglione16, Stefano Pergolizzi17, Antonio Cascio18, Jacques Bernier19, Judith Raber-Durlacher20, Jan B Vermorken21, Barbara Murphy22, Marco V Ranieri23, R Phillip Dellinger24.
Abstract
The reporting of infection/sepsis in chemo/radiation-treated head and neck cancer patients is sparse and the problem is underestimated. A multidisciplinary group of head and neck cancer specialists from Italy met with the aim of reaching a consensus on a clinical definition and management of infections and sepsis. The Delphi appropriateness method was used for this consensus. External expert reviewers then evaluated the conclusions carefully according to their area of expertise. The paper contains seven clusters of statements about the clinical definition and management of infections and sepsis in head and neck cancer patients, which had a consensus. Furthermore, it offers a review of recent literature in these topics.Entities:
Keywords: Chemotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Radiotherapy; Sepsis
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Year: 2015 PMID： 25818202 DOI： 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2015.03.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Crit Rev Oncol Hematol ISSN： 1040-8428 Impact factor: 6.312