Method for improving autologous transplantation

Abstract

There is disclosed a method for autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation of patients receiving cytoreductive therapy, comprising: (1) obtaining hematopoietic progenitor cells from bone marrow or peripheral blood from a patient prior to cytoreductive therapy; (2) expanding the hematopoietic progenitor cells ex vivo with an ex vivo growth factor selected from the group consisting of interleukin-3 (IL-3), steel factor (SF), granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), interleukin-1 (IL-1), GM-CSF/IL-3 fusion proteins and combinations thereof, to provide a cellular preparation comprising an expanded population of progenitor cells; and (3) administering the cellular preparation to the patient concurrently with or follwoing cytoreductive therapy. The inventive method optionally comprising a preliminary treatment with a recruitment growth factor to recruit hematopoietic progenitor cells into peripheral blood and a subsequent treatment with an engraftment growth factor to facilitate engraftment and proliferation of hematopoietic progenitor cells administered in the cellular preparation. The invention further provides a hematopoietic progenitor cell expansion media composition comprising cell media, an ex vivo growth factor, and autologous serum.

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