As single agents, both paclitaxel and epirubicin in combination with cytokines can mobilize peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPCs). The authors have demonstrated previously that the combination of epirubicin and paclitaxel is very active against metastatic breast carcinoma and tolerated by patients. METHODS: Twenty-one patients with metastatic breast carcinoma received epirubicin 90 mg/m2 in combination with paclitaxel 200 mg/m2 given as a 3-hour infusion, and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) starting 24 hours after chemotherapy to mobilize PBPCs. An immunophenotypic analysis for CD3, CD4, CD8, CD 19, CD33, CD34, and CD38 antigen expression was performed on apheresis products. Eighteen patients underwent high dose chemotherapy and were engrafted with PBPCs primed with paclitaxel, epirubicin, and G-CSF. RESULTS: The median number of circulating CD34+ cells at peak was 70/microL; in the patients less heavily pretreated, it was 106.7/microL. The mean number of CD34+, CD34+/CD33-, and CD34+/CD38- cells/kg collected per apheresis was 6.3 x 10(6), 2.0 x 10(6), and 0.18 x 10(6), respectively. The mean number of CD34+ cells/kg per apheresis was 7.8 x 10(6) when the preleukapheresis CD34+ cell count was more than 50/microL and 0.9 x 10(6) when the CD34+ cell count was less than 50/microL. The mean number of CD3+, CD4+, and CD8+ cells/kg collected per apheresis was 90 x 10(6), 50 x 10(6), and 30 x 10(6), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Epirubicin plus paclitaxel in combination with G-CSF mobilizes PBPCs, including more primitive progenitors capable of supporting myeloablative treatment. Moreover, the mononuclear cells collected in this study contained high levels of cytotoxic effector cells suitable for ex vivo manipulation to augment the antitumor effect.

Mobilization, collection and characterization of peripheral blood hemopoietic progenitors after Epirubicin, Paclitaxel and Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G.CSF) in patients with metastatic breast cancer / C., Bengala; I., Pazzagli; C., Tibaldi; C., Favre; R., Vannacore; F., Greco; A., Mazzoni; U., Baicchi; Conte, Pierfranco. - In: CANCER. - ISSN 0008-543X. - STAMPA. - 82:(1998), pp. 867-873.

Mobilization, collection and characterization of peripheral blood hemopoietic progenitors after Epirubicin, Paclitaxel and Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G.CSF) in patients with metastatic breast cancer

CONTE, Pierfranco
1998

Abstract

As single agents, both paclitaxel and epirubicin in combination with cytokines can mobilize peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPCs). The authors have demonstrated previously that the combination of epirubicin and paclitaxel is very active against metastatic breast carcinoma and tolerated by patients. METHODS: Twenty-one patients with metastatic breast carcinoma received epirubicin 90 mg/m2 in combination with paclitaxel 200 mg/m2 given as a 3-hour infusion, and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) starting 24 hours after chemotherapy to mobilize PBPCs. An immunophenotypic analysis for CD3, CD4, CD8, CD 19, CD33, CD34, and CD38 antigen expression was performed on apheresis products. Eighteen patients underwent high dose chemotherapy and were engrafted with PBPCs primed with paclitaxel, epirubicin, and G-CSF. RESULTS: The median number of circulating CD34+ cells at peak was 70/microL; in the patients less heavily pretreated, it was 106.7/microL. The mean number of CD34+, CD34+/CD33-, and CD34+/CD38- cells/kg collected per apheresis was 6.3 x 10(6), 2.0 x 10(6), and 0.18 x 10(6), respectively. The mean number of CD34+ cells/kg per apheresis was 7.8 x 10(6) when the preleukapheresis CD34+ cell count was more than 50/microL and 0.9 x 10(6) when the CD34+ cell count was less than 50/microL. The mean number of CD3+, CD4+, and CD8+ cells/kg collected per apheresis was 90 x 10(6), 50 x 10(6), and 30 x 10(6), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Epirubicin plus paclitaxel in combination with G-CSF mobilizes PBPCs, including more primitive progenitors capable of supporting myeloablative treatment. Moreover, the mononuclear cells collected in this study contained high levels of cytotoxic effector cells suitable for ex vivo manipulation to augment the antitumor effect.
1998
82
867
873
Mobilization, collection and characterization of peripheral blood hemopoietic progenitors after Epirubicin, Paclitaxel and Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G.CSF) in patients with metastatic breast cancer / C., Bengala; I., Pazzagli; C., Tibaldi; C., Favre; R., Vannacore; F., Greco; A., Mazzoni; U., Baicchi; Conte, Pierfranco. - In: CANCER. - ISSN 0008-543X. - STAMPA. - 82:(1998), pp. 867-873.
C., Bengala; I., Pazzagli; C., Tibaldi; C., Favre; R., Vannacore; F., Greco; A., Mazzoni; U., Baicchi; Conte, Pierfranco
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