Scientists say that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may be a boon to doctors gathering stem cells for transplants to treat patients with blood or bone marrow cancers, including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and multiple myeloma. The compounds, known as NSAIDs and which include aspirin, ibuprofen and other painkillers, increased the number of stem and progenitor cells harvested from the blood in animal testing and a small human study, according to work published by a research team led by Indiana University School of Medicine scientists. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Hoggatt J, et al. Differential stem- and progenitor-cell trafficking by prostaglandin E2. Nature. 2013 Mar 13. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 23485965
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