Improvement of supportive nursing care in cancer patients autografted with bone marrow and mobilized peripheral blood haematopoietic progenitors

1996 
We report that in cancer patients a dramatic reduction in infection rate, days of isolation, oral mucositis and hospitalization due to high-dose chemotherapy is achievable by autografting with haematopoietic progenitor cells (CPCs) circulating in peripheral blood following cancer therapy with high-dose cyclophosphamide (HD-CTX) and administration of recombinant haematopoietic cytokines. Thirty patients (29 lymphomas, one breast cancer) were treated with total body irradiation and high-dose melphalan followed by either: (i) bone marrow transplant (Group A); (ii) bone marrow plus HD-CTX-mobilized CPC transplant (Group B); or (iii) bone marrow plus HD-CTX- and cytokine-mobilized CPC transplant (Group C). Nursing care load was remarkably higher in Group A patients compared to Group B and C patients, thus demonstrating clinical advantages of transplantation of HD-CTX- and cytokine-mobilized CPCs.
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