Method of treating cancer with a fully myeloablative regimen of chemotherapy, radiation or both

摘要

The use, in sequence, of a cytotoxic, but stem cell sparing, agent and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor as a means to harvest very high numbers of multipotential haemopoietic precursor cells and in reducing the period of myeloid recovery after high dose chemo- or radiotherapy of cancer.