Facteurs de croissance hématopoïétiques. Intérêt thérapeutique en cancérologie.

Among haematopoietic growth factors, the granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), the granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and, more recently, interleukin-3 have been used in therapeutics mainly to try to reduce the duration of aplasia after chemotherapy followed or not by bone marrow transplantation in solid tumours and in leukaemias. In addition, interleukin-3 reduces the need for red cell and platelet transfusions