Abstract
Two elderly patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia were treated with cytosine ara-binoside (Ara-C) and aclarubicin (ACR) under simultaneous administrations of macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) (CAM), and both obtained good responses. Examination of apoptosis using flow cytometry revealed induction of apoptotic death of leukemia cells by CAM in Patient 2, while neither induction of apoptotic death of leukemia cells nor clinical response were seen with CAG (Ara-C, ACR, and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor) given prior to CAM in Patient 1. These findings suggested that chemotherapy combined with simultaneous administration of M-CSF could effectively reduce monocytic leukemia cells by inducing programmed cell death.
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