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Nature Clinical Practice Oncology (2005) 2, 186-187
doi:10.1038/ncponc0128  
Received 31 January 2005 | Accepted 23 February 2005

Can combination salvage therapy for invasive aspergillosis improve patient outcome?

Raoul Herbrecht* and Shanti Natarajan-Amé

Correspondence *Department of Hematology and Oncology, Hôpital de Hautepierre, Strasbourg 67098, France

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 raoul.herbrecht@chru-strasbourg.fr

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It is a well demonstrated fact that the incidence of invasive fungal infections, and especially that of invasive aspergillosis, has continued to grow over the past two decades. Many factors have contributed to this increase, including new, more intensive therapeutic strategies for cancer. Despite new tools allowing earlier and more reliable diagnosis of invasive fungal infections,1 these remain an important cause of mortality and morbidity in leukemic patients and HSCT recipients.

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