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Vanessa Foggo1, Jamie Cavenagh2
1SpR haematology, Royal London Hospital, London, UK vanessa.foggo@bartshealth.nhs.uk.
Abstract:
The presence of fever in malignancy usually indicates infection, though transfusion, thrombosis and drugs are also culprits. However, particularly in some tumour types, fever can also be a paraneoplastic syndrome, caused by the malignancy itself. This can be a difficult diagnosis to establish and presents a therapeutic challenge to the physician when the underlying malignancy is not easily treated.
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