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Article: Study Indicates Peripheral Blood Cells Superior To Bone Marrow For Cancer Treatment.(Brief Article)
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- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- March 6, 2001
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2001 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by Michael Greer, staff medical writer -- Oncologists writing in the New England Journal of Medicine have shown that peripheral blood cells, properly mobilized, can be used to treat leukemia and related malignancies more effectively than bone marrow cells.
"In recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic-cell transplants, peripheral-blood cells mobilized with the use of filgrastim (recombinant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor) engraft more rapidly than bone marrow," noted W.I. Bensinger and colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.
"However, the relative effects of ...