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Stem Cell Transplantation

Poor mobilization predicts survival in PBSCT-treated non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 5th, 2006

Poor mobilization is an independent prognostic factor in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients treated with peripheral blood stem cell transplantation..

According to a recently published study from Italy, "Hematopoietic stem cell therapy is an increasingly adopted procedure in the treatment of patients with malignant lymphoma.

"In this retrospective analysis, we evaluated 262 patients, 57 (22%) with Hodgkin's and 205 (78%) with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL), and 665 harvesting procedures in order to assess the impact of poor mobilization on survival and to determine the factors that may be predictive of CD34+ poor mobilization."

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