Comparing Chemotherapy Recovery at Home versus in the Hospital for Children with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML) requires multiple courses of intensive chemotherapy. Each course of chemotherapy destroys a child's white blood cells, called neutrophils, leaving the child in a state of neutropenia for 2 or more weeks. During neutropenia, the child is at significant risk for life-...