Which is the best statement for the benefit of using myeloid colony-stimulating factor for acute radiation-induced myelosuppression? A. Improves survival of adults, and not children, exposed to myelosuppressive doses of radiation. B. Improves survival of children, and not adults, exposed to myelosuppressive doses of radiation. C. Some impact on the duration of severe neutropenia. D. Minimal impact on the severity of neutropenia-associated complications, including infections. E. Improve outcomes in patients with radiation exposure who have trauma and/or burns.
E.Myeloid colony-stimulating factors improve outcomes in patients radiation exposure who have trauma and/or burns, improve survival in adults and children, they have significant impacts on severe neutropenia, and they reduce severity of neutropenia-associated complications, including infections.
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Contributed by: Jonathan Meadows, DO, MS, MPH, DTM