title: [General principles of treatment of anemia in cancer patients].
abstract: Most of cancer patients experience anemia. It's a main cause of fatigue and it leads to a decrease of the quality of life. It may have an impact on prognostic too, mainly when radiotherapy is concerned. Apart from etiologic treatments, anemia can be treated with transfusion and/or erythropoietin. Their respective pros and cons are discussed. There are few guidelines available on this topic and an algorithm of decision is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Département d'oncologie médicale, Centre Alexis-Vautrin, av. de Bourgogne, 54511 VandOEuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France. d.spaeth@nancy.fnclcc.fr
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Spaeth
mesh_terms: D000740:Anemia / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy*; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000592:standards*; D017707:Erythrocyte Transfusion; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011788:Quality of Life
chemical_list: D004921:Erythropoietin