Challenges in the care of Ewing’s sarcoma in a Jehovah’s Witness patient.

Biomedica

Servicio de Hemato-Oncología, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia.

Published: March 2023

Ewing’s sarcoma is a bone and soft tissue neoplasm, whose management is related to hematological toxicity. This aspect represents a medical and ethical challenge in Jehovah’s Witnesses patients, who, due to their religious beliefs, reject the blood component transfusion, with the risk of discontinuing chemotherapy or using suboptimal doses. We present the case of a 34-year-old Colombian woman, Jehovah’s Witness, diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma with clinical stage IIB (T1N0M0) in the left maxillary and mandibular regions, treated with chemotherapy, who presented a hemoglobin nadir of up to 4.5 g/dL, and surgical indication as part of the treatment. In these patients, the transfusion decision has ethical implications that require therapeutic alternatives and a multidisciplinary approach.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10484291PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.6720DOI Listing

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