Infectious Disease

Medical Oncology   

Questions discussed in this category



Chemotherapy is associated with acquiring C diff colitis. Does immunotherapy share that same risk and necessitate ruling out infection prior to anti-d...

If yes, would you go with Zidovudine monotherapy versus combining with interferon-alpha? And what would be the preferred dose and duration? 

At the time of count recovery or do you continue it throughout induction and consolidation?

E.g., for a patient with myeloma, s/p induction therapy, and high-dose chemotherapy, followed by autologous rescue with inappropriate antibody respons...

Assuming no symptoms of TB, should patients be treated for latent TB prior to starting TNF inhibitors or other immunosuppressive agents?

Infection is not part of the criteria for starting treatment both in UpToDate and in NCCN guidelines. 

Does treatment with B-cell depletion and/or negative anti-spike antibody status despite COVID mRNA vaccination influence your decision?

Can experts comment on fungal pneumonia risk with individual BTK inhibitors as seen in ELEVATE-RR and whether this impacts their management decisions?

Does your recommendation differ between autologous and allogeneic transplants? Does your recommendation differ in allogeneic transplant recipients wh...

Is it at neutrophil recovery, at documentation of CR on bone marrow biopsy, or is there a different point in time?


Papers discussed in this category


The New England journal of medicine, 2007-01-25

Blood, 2015-10-29

Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2011-03

Seminars in hematology, 2013-07

Ann Oncol, 2021 Mar 18

J Clin Oncol, 2021 Jul 26

Lancet Oncol, 2019 Oct 23

Urology, 1982-09

Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2009-03

Clin Infect Dis, 2005 Jan 21

Pediatr Transplant, 2014 Sep 08

J Clin Oncol, 2021 Apr 30

Pediatr Infect Dis J, 2014 Nov

Bone Marrow Transplant, 2006 Mar

PET Clin, 2020 Feb 11

Rheumatology (Oxford), 2022 Jul 22

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2016-12

The Lancet. Oncology, 2022 Mar 10

Journal of oncology practice, 2018-09-04

Leukemia & lymphoma, 2022 Mar 15

Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program, 2020 Dec 04

Lupus, 2014 Jul 30

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2024 Sep 12

American journal of clinical oncology, 2021 Aug 01

Annals of gastroenterology, 2022 Jun 02

Melanoma research, 2023 Mar 27