Sentences with phrase «during induction therapy»

«Levofloxacin prophylaxis during induction therapy for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia»

The study was the largest yet focused on the safety and efficacy of proactive antibiotic therapy to prevent infections in pediatric ALL patients during induction therapy.

Researchers reported that preventive therapy with levofloxacin or other antibiotics reduced the odds of infection, including fevers and bloodstream infections, by 70 percent or more in ALL patients with neutropenia during induction therapy.

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While toxicity during induction is still of concern, especially in the elderly patients, we conclude from these data that de-escalation of induction therapy in elderly primary central nervous system lymphoma patients followed by maintenance treatment seems to be a promising treatment strategy.

The study showed that measuring MRD just twice during remission induction therapy — at day 19 and day 46 — rather than multiple times during the more than two years of treatment was sufficient to guide treatment of most pediatric ALL patients.