@article {Foggo292, author = {Vanessa Foggo and Jamie Cavenagh}, title = {Malignant causes of fever of unknown origin}, volume = {15}, number = {3}, pages = {292--294}, year = {2015}, doi = {10.7861/clinmedicine.15-3-292}, publisher = {Royal College of Physicians}, abstract = {The presence of fever in malignancy usually indicates infection, though transfusion, thrombosis and drugs are also culprits. However, particularly in some tumour types, fever can also be a paraneoplastic syndrome, caused by the malignancy itself. This can be a difficult diagnosis to establish and presents a therapeutic challenge to the physician when the underlying malignancy is not easily treated.}, issn = {1470-2118}, URL = {https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/3/292}, eprint = {https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/3/292.full.pdf}, journal = {Clinical Medicine} }