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In addition, neutropenia may affect your next round of chemotherapy. Particularly if your neutrophil level doesnât return to normal quickly enough. Your doctor may postpone chemotherapy or lower the dose. For neutropenia with a fever, your doctor may prescribe white blood cell growth factors.
Mortality from infection was higher among non-neutropenic (11.1%) than neutropenic patients (4.3%). CONCLUSION: Fever in cancer patients remains a challenge, and the differentiation between infectious and non-infectious causes at onset of fever is very difficult.auses of fever in cancer patients (prospective study over 477 episodes). Toussaint E(1), Bahel-Ball E, Vekemans M, Georgala A, Al-Hakak L, Paesmans M, Aoun M. Author information: (1)Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Departement dÃ©partement Des Maladies, Infectieuses Institut Jules, bordet Rue-Heger hÃ©ger, bordet 1, 1000. bruxelles belgium