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Study identifies kids with cancer at risk of lethal infections

July 12, 2022

New research has identified the child cancer patients at greatest risk of developing life-threatening infections, in a crucial step towards the development of an early diagnostic test.

There is currently no clinical test to identify which children are likely to develop severe infections during febrile neutropenia (FN) — a condition common in chemotherapy patients — from those who are at low risk.

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