Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation Plus Filgrastim in Treating Patients With Acute or Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Graft Versus Host Disease, Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes

In brief

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more cancer cells. Colony stimulating factors such as filgrastim may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood and may help a person's immune system recover from the side effects of chemotherapy. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of peripheral stem cell transplantation plus filgrastim in treating patients who have acute or chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00002833
Run by
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
People needed
53
Starts
1994-10-01
Expected to finish
2002-04-01
Last updated by the study team
2012-07-30

Who can join

Age: 55 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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