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Does anyone know anything on meds that help boost the white blood count in a patient that has lukemia?
My mom was recently sent to I.C.U. after a chemo treatment & in the past, the Doctor has always given her shots after chemo called Nupregen to help boost her white blood count. Since she has been in I.C.U., the doctor said he quit giving her this shot, because it was making more Lukemia cells. how could this be??? She has now been left with no meds to help fight infection and to help boost her white blood count. Does anyone know anything about this?? I feel like the Doctor has given up... Does anyone know if there is an alternative medicine used in Lukemia/Cancer patients that help boost the white blood count??? I feel so helpless.. The Doctors give us no hope. Thank you..
the drug Procrit is supposed to increase the WBC of patients receiving chemo (oops, sorry, procrit increases RBCs). Has the possibility of a bone marrow transplant been explored? This can often be very beneficial for leukemia patients.
Here, I found this article.
Arsenic-Based Therapy Benefits Leukemia Patients - Brief Article
FDA Consumer, Jan, 2001
A new arsenic-based drug may benefit some leukemia patients for whom standard therapy has failed. The Food and Drug Administration approved Trisenox (arsenic trioxide) to treat patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) who have not responded to, or have relapsed after the use of, trans-retinoic acid and anthracyline-based chemotherapy, which is considered the first-line therapy. Trisenox was approved for marketing only three years after the study of the drug first started in the United States--the fastest development of any cancer therapy.
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APL is a cancer in which abnormal white blood cells in bone marrow and blood accumulate quickly, resulting in anemia (a reduction in red blood cells), susceptibility to infections, and bleeding. About 1,500 new cases of APL are diagnosed each year and an estimated 400 of those patients will not respond to or will relapse from first-line therapy.
Trisenox offers a new alternative. Arsenic trioxide changes immature cancerous white blood cells into normal white blood cells. The result can be a sudden increase in the white blood cell count. In a multi-center clinical study of 40 patients who received arsenic trioxide infusions, 28 patients (70 percent) had a remission of their leukemia.
In some cases, the increase in the white blood cell count is accompanied by the "APL differentiation syndrome," a potentially fatal condition characterized by inflammation and fluid accumulation, particularly in the lining of the heart and lungs. The usual treatment is to temporarily stop the leukemia therapy and treat with high-dose steroids. This syndrome appeared in eight of the 40 patients (20 percent), but no cases were severe enough to require interrupting the arsenic trioxide therapy.
Also, try this website.
http://www.mdanderson.org/patients_public/clinical_trials/
Good Luck!
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