Open AccessThe change in peripheral blood monocyte count: A predictor to make the management of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia
Author(s) -
Wen Ouyang,
Yu Liu,
Di Deng,
Fuxiang Zhou,
Conghua Xie
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.177502
Subject(s) - monocyte , medicine , absolute neutrophil count , neutropenia , bivariate analysis , gastroenterology , nadir , complete blood count , chemotherapy , immunology , statistics , mathematics , satellite , engineering , aerospace engineering
The occurrence of neutropenia following chemotherapy makes the management of myelosuppression important. The main objective of this study was to evaluate whether the decrease of peripheral blood monocytes was a potential indicator to predict the occurrence of neutropenia.