Impact of Early Chemotherapy Resumption on the Outcome after Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in Patients with Solid Tumors: A Retrospective Study in a Single Tertiary Cancer Center in Japan

• Published in: European journal of cancer care Vol. 2023; no. NA; pp. 1 - 7
• Main Authors: Edagawa, Shunji, Naito, Tateaki, Yamamoto, Shuhei, Terada, Norihiko, Nakaya, Yuichiro, Mori, Keita, Kurai, Hanako
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Hindawi 21.09.2023; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Antibiotics; Bacteremia; Blood; Blood culture; Breast cancer; Cancer; Cancer therapies; Care and treatment; Catheters; Chemotherapy; Cytotoxicity; Development and progression; Ewings sarcoma; Infection; Infection control; Ions; Lung cancer; Medical examination; Metastasis; Methicillin; Mortality; Nosocomial infections; Oncology, Experimental; Patient outcomes; Pneumonia; Sepsis; Solid tumors; Staphylococcus aureus; Staphylococcus aureus infections; Staphylococcus infections; Sulbactam; Testicular cancer; Tumors; United States > US; Japan; California

Objective. Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) in patients with solid tumors poses a dilemma between infection control and cancer treatment. We aimed to explore whether early resumption of chemotherapy yielded unfavorable outcomes in oncologic patients with SAB. Methods. We retrospectively review...