Tailored doses of cytostatic improve survival rate
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and colleagues at University Children’s Hospital Zürich in Switzerland have managed to improve cytostatic therapy for children with the chronic immune deficiency disorder granulomatous disease prior to stem cell transplantation. By tailoring doses of the cytostatics administered before the transplantation, the researchers achieved a higher rate of survival with minimal adverse reactions. Now more patient groups are to undergo the same therapeutic strategy.The results, which are presented in the scientific journal The Lancet, are based on a
