1. Treatment of aplastic anaemia with granulocyte-colony stimulating factor and risk of malignancy. Italian Aplastic Anaemia Study Group.
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Locasciulli, Anna, Arcese, William, Locatelli, Franco, Di Bona, Eros, Bacigalupo, Andrea, Locasciulli, A, Arcese, W, Locatelli, F, Di Bona, E, Bacigalupo, A, and Italian Aplastic Anaemia Study Group
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GRANULOCYTE-colony stimulating factor , *COLONY-stimulating factors (Physiology) , *BLOOD diseases , *APLASTIC anemia treatment , *PHYSIOLOGY , *ANTILYMPHOCYTIC serum , *APLASTIC anemia , *COMBINATION drug therapy , *CLINICAL trials , *COMPARATIVE studies , *CYCLOSPORINE , *HEMOLYTIC anemia , *IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE agents , *LEUKEMIA , *LONGITUDINAL method , *RESEARCH methodology , *MEDICAL cooperation , *MOUTH tumors , *MYELODYSPLASTIC syndromes , *RESEARCH , *SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry) , *TUMORS , *EVALUATION research , *TREATMENT effectiveness , *THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) is being increasingly used in healthy volunteers to harvest haemopoietic stem cells. A possible role of G-CSF in the development of clonal disorders or leukaemia has been suggested. We analysed 144 patients with aplastic anaemia treated with immunosuppression protocols with or without G-CSF, with normal cytogenetics at diagnosis or immediately after immunosuppression. Our findings indicated that the risk of developing myelodysplasia or leukaemia was similar in patients with aplastic anaemia on immunosuppressive treatment with or without G-CSF. Therefore, it seems unlikely that G-CSF causes leukaemia in healthy volunteers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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