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Patients undergoing transplantation are at high risk for infection with a variety of pathogens at multiple phases in their care.
Patients receiving standard chemotherapy regimens for solid tumors are at lower risk for development of febrile neutropenia and infection than patients who undergo bone marrow or stem cell transplantation.
Cognitive impairment can continue for a long time after completion of treatment. People treated for childhood cancers may have long-term cognitive impairment.
Chronic pain persists for three months or more. Cancer-related chronic pain may result from cancer treatment but is most frequently caused by bone metastasis.
Mucositis is an inflammatory process that affects the mucous membranes of the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract.
These general prevention of infection resources refer to cancer-related or cancer treatment-related infection, not including transplantation.