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What is your approach to management of chronic neutropenia in a patient with Sjogren’s who was recently diagnosed with metastatic endometrial cancer and plans to start chemotherapy?

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Rheumatology · University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco
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With metastatic cancer, optimal treatment of the endometrial cancer is the priority. Heme/Onc consultant would likely be giving granulocyte stimulating products.

Although neutropenia can occur in Sjogren's Disease (SjD), I rarely have found it to be clinically significant, and lymphopenia seems to oc...

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