Children with cancer are at high risk for developing short-term and long-term nutritional
problems related to their underlying disease and side effects of multimodal treatments …

The low-bacterial diet (LBD) is a widely used dietary regimen to reduce the risk of food-
borne infections in patients with neutropenic cancer, but its role is controversial due to its …

Purpose To provide an updated joint ASCO/Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
guideline on antimicrobial prophylaxis for adult patients with immunosuppression …

Abstract In 2009, the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and its European
counterpart (Euopean Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition) published guidelines …

No Brasil, estima-se, para o biênio 2018-2019, a ocorrência de 600 mil novos casos de
câncer, para cada ano. No ano de 2008, considerando somente as doenças crônicas não …

Introduction Multiple studies have questioned the benefit of neutropenic diets in decreasing
infections in patients with cancer, but recent surveys showed that such diets are still …

Background The neutropenic diet (ND) is prescribed to avoid introduction of bacteria into a
host's gastrointestinal tract and reduce infection. Due to a lack of evidence to support the …

Purpose Although nonpharmacologic anti-infective measures are widely used in children
treated for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), there is little evidence of their effectiveness …

Results: Five randomized controlled trials with a total of 388 patients were included in the
final analysis. Patients mostly had acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic …

Neutropenic diets were adopted as a way to decrease the infection risks in
immunocompromised individuals, but these diets result in significant restrictions in the …