Background And Objective: The combination of high or intermediate-dose cyclophosphamide (CY) plus granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) is useful to mobilize hematopoietic progenitor cells to peripheral blood, but the patients require hospitalization. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of low-dose CY plus G-CSF (5 ug/kg/day s.c.) as an outpatient treatment in order to collect enough progenitor cells for hematopoietic rescue in autologous peripheral blood transplantation (APBSCT).

Design And Methods: We analyzed twenty-eight consecutively treated patients with lymphoma or multiple myeloma. The number of CD34+ cells in blood samples was determined from day +7. Leukapheresis (LKP) began when the absolute number of CD34+ cells in peripheral blood was > 2500/mL and the apheresis product was assayed for mononuclear cells (MNC), granulocyte-macrophage colony-forming units (CFU-GM), total nucleated cells (tNC) and CD34+ cells.

Results: Twenty-eight outpatients with advanced hematologic malignancies (13 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, NHL; 10 Hodgkin's disease, HD; and 5 multiple myeloma, MM), median age 44 years (range 23-65) received a single dose of CY (1.5 g/m2 i.v. day 0) followed by G-CSF (5 ug/kg/day s.c.) from day +1 to the end of LKP. Considering patients who had successful mobilization (64%), a median of 7.1 x 10(6)/kg CD34+ cells (range 3.5-11.9), 5.7 x 10(5)/kg CFU-GM (range 1.5-9.2), 4.4 x 10(8)/kg MNC (range 1.9-7.9) were collected. Treatment was well tolerated and none of these patients was hospitalized due to neutropenic fever. Only one patient received two packed red blood cells following chemotherapy. Autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (APBSCT) has been performed in 18 patients (64%). The mean number of days to achieve > 0.5 x 10(9) PMN/L and > 20 x 10(9) PLT/L was 12 (10-17) and 12.6 (8-24), respectively.

Interpretation And Conclusions: Considering a pre-established threshold of 2.5 x 10(6)/kg CD34+ cells to proceed to APBSCT, the mobilization therapy was successful in 64% of the patients but was unsuccessful in 10 patients (5 NHL, 4 HD and 1 MM). Hematopoietic recovery was complete and stable in all patients. Low-dose CY plus G-CSF is efficient to collect enough PBSC for hematopoietic rescue after myeloablative therapy in patients with lymphoprolipherative disorders or multiple myeloma.

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