Limitations
neutropenia
NEUTROPENIA
Some limitations of this study were the small number of included patients and the single institute design. However, the total number of chemotherapy cycles met the statistical requirements, because each patient received four cycles of chemotherapy. In addition, the efficacy of rhG-CSF use for three times per cycle in the control group could be a little weak for the prevention of neutropenia. In 2003, Green et al. [