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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.
Chemotherapy-induced neutropenia (CIN) is the major dose-limiting toxicity of systemic cancer chemotherapy, and it is associated with substantial morbidity, mortality, and costs. Neutropenia may result in fever and neutropenia, or febrile neutropenia (FN), often necessitating hospitalization for evaluation and empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics.