Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-combined marrow-ablative chemotherapy and autologous blood cell transplantation for the treatment of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia in first remission. The Fukouka Bone Marrow Transplant Group - PubMed (original) (raw)

Clinical Trial

. 1997 Oct;66(3):297-301.

doi: 10.1016/s0925-5710(97)00037-6.

K Akashi, S Hayashi, T Eto, Y Takamatsu, T Teshima, Y Hirota, S Taniguchi, K Nagafuji, S Mizuno, H Gondo, Y Niho

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Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor-combined marrow-ablative chemotherapy and autologous blood cell transplantation for the treatment of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia in first remission. The Fukouka Bone Marrow Transplant Group

M Harada et al. Int J Hematol. 1997 Oct.

Abstract

We conducted a clinical trial to increase the chemosensitivity of residual leukemic cells by combining G-CSF to marrow-ablative chemotherapy, including cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C), and facilitated by autologous blood cell transplantation (ABCT) for treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) in first complete remission. A total of 16 patients were consecutively treated with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF)-combined high-dose chemotherapy (busulfan, etoposide and Ara-C) followed by autotransplantation of peripheral blood progenitor cells, which had been collected after the consolidation chemotherapy. At a median follow-up time of 44.5 months, the probability of 5-year event-free survival was 74.5% with only three leukemic relapses. This preliminary observation suggests the effectiveness of G-CSF-combined conditioning and ABCT as a post-remission therapy for AML.

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