Table 2 Basic characteristics concerning different strategies of stem cell apheresis.

From: Approaches of stem cell mobilization in a large cohort of metastatic germ cell cancer patients

Mobilization method

Patients

Median number of filgrastim injections

Median days of apheresis (range)

Median number of CD34*cells

Patients with successful stem cell mobilization (%)

G-CSF once daily

52

10

2.15 (range: 1–4)

11.39 * 106 (range: 2.2–38.6)

77

G-CSF twice daily

39

14

2.2 (range: 1–4)

13.2 * 106 (range: 1.0–70.0)

69

PegG-CSF

11

1

2.54 (range: 1–4)

11.4 * 106 (range: 5.6–18.8)

90

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