PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Vanessa Foggo
AU  - Jamie Cavenagh
TI  - Malignant causes of fever of unknown origin
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-3-292
DP  - 2015 Jun 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 292--294
VI  - 15
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/3/292.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/15/3/292.full
SO  - Clin Med2015 Jun 01; 15
AB  - 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.