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- Title
Optimizing the timing of chemotherapy for mobilizing autologous blood hematopoietic progenitor cells.
- Authors
Hicks, Michelle L.; Lonial, Sagar; Langston, Amelia; Flowers, Christopher; Roback, John D.; Smith, Kenneth J.; Mossavi Sai, Sarah; Teagarden, Diane; Hamilton, Ellie S.; Waller, Edmund K.
- Abstract
BACKGROUND: Postchemotherapy mobilization results were reviewed in patients undergoing apheresis before planned autologous hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) transplantation to improve the timing of collection procedures. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: A total of 135 attempts to collect autologous HPC were studied in 132 unique patients with lymphoid malignancies (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and Hodgkin's disease). Chemotherapy mobilization regimens included cyclophosphamide (n = 59), ICE (n = 46), or other regimens (n = 30). Granulocyte–colony-stimulating factor (CSF) was administered once daily at a dose of 5 μg per kg starting 2 days after the last dose of chemotherapy; granulocyte-macrophage–CSF was added at a daily dose of 5 μg per kg 6 days later. Apheresis was initiated when the blood CD34+ content was more than 20 per μL. RESULTS: In an initial cohort of 37 patients, 27 percent required apheresis during the weekend. An optimized timing for chemotherapy mobilization was developed based on retrospective data; prospective implementation of the new algorithm reduced the incidence of weekend apheresis to 13 percent in the subsequent 98 consecutive patients (p < 0.05). A median of 9 × 106 (range, 0.4 × 106-96 × 106) CD34+ cells per kg was collected from the entire cohort of 135 patients after a mean of 1.8 days of apheresis. Apheresis was initiated following a median (±SD) of 10 ± 2.7 days of cytokines. CONCLUSION: In the majority of patients, the first day of apheresis occurred 11 to 13 days after the last dose of chemotherapy with a variety of different chemotherapy regimens. Administering the last dose of chemotherapy on Thursday or Friday versus Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday was associated with a 77 percent lower incidence in the frequency of weekend apheresis collections (p < 0.001).
- Subjects
DRUG therapy; BLOOD cells; HEMAPHERESIS; GRANULOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTES; GROWTH factors; BLOOD transfusion; CYTOKINES
- Publication
Transfusion, 2007, Vol 47, Issue 4, p629
- ISSN
0041-1132
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01164.x