Breast Cancer
"Negative Immunomagnetic Purging of Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) Harvests from Breast Cancer Patients Reduces Tumor Cell Contamination While Unaffecting Hematopoietic Recovery."
Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 31st, 1999
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, held May 15-18, 1999, in Atlanta, Georgia, "Since tumor contamination of hematopoietic stem cell grafts may influence the outcome of breast cancer patients undergoing high-dose chemotherapy (HDC), several ex vivo procedures for the purging of autologous harvests have been investigated. We studied the presence of epithelial tumor cells and the growth of hematopoietic progenitors in peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collections of patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC), before and after a purging procedure performed by a negative immunomagnetic breast cancer cells...
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