Blood: 3. Neutropenia and Stem cell mobilisation

Question 1

Neutropenia

Answer 1

Treatment: filgrastim (recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor)
Used to stimulate neutrophils and reduces the duration of chemotherapyy-induced neutropenia

Question 2

Stem-cell mobilisation

Answer 2

whereby stem cells are sitmulated out the bone marrow space (e.g hip bones, chest bones) into the bloodstream so they become available for collection, for future reinfusion