Plerixafor salvage is safe and effective in hard-to-mobilize patients undergoing chemotherapy and filgrastim-based peripheral blood progenitor cell mobilization

Farrukh T. Awan, S. Thomas Kochuparambil, David Deremer, Aaron Cumpston, Michael Craig, Anand Jillella, Mehdi Hamadani

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Abstract

The combination of filgrastim (G-CSF) and plerixafor is currently approved for mobilizing peripheral blood progenitor cells in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma undergoing autologous peripheral blood hematopoietic cell transplantation. However, chemotherapy and G-CSF-based mobilization remains a widely used strategy for peripheral blood progenitor cell collection. In this paper we describe our experience from two North American transplant centers in a series of patients who received salvage plerixafor while failing chemotherapy and G-CSF mobilization. Patients received a median of two doses of plerixafor salvage upon failure to mobilize adequate number of peripheral blood progenitor cells at neutrophil recovery. The use of plerixafor was associated with a 2.4-fold increase in peripheral blood CD34+ cell count and 3.9-fold increase in total CD34+ cell yield. All patients were able to collect 2 × 10 6 CD34+cells/kg with this approach. These results were more pronounced in patients with a higher CD34+ cell count at the time of the first plerixafor dose. Interestingly, peripheral blood white blood cell count was not shown to correlate with a response to plerixafor. Our results provide safety and efficacy data for the use of plerixafor in patients who are destined to fail chemomobilization.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number931071
JournalJournal of Oncology
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Oncology

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