Blood Products

New Drug Could Ease Shortages Of Platelets

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 3rd, 1997

A new drug may dramatically increase the nation's supply of platelets, a chronically scarce blood product needed by many cancer patients.

A single injection of the drug, a synthetic human hormone called PEG-rHuMGDF, can triple the number of platelets received from each donor, said Lawrence T. Goodnough, M.D., professor of medicine and of pathology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

"Platelets are precious, and this drug could help ease the shortage," he says. Goodnough, a lead researcher in a multicenter study of the drug, announced the findings at the annual American Association of Blood Banks meeting in...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-11-03)

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