My mom came to St. Joseph's Hospital on Friday, August 10th with a crazy high white blood cell count of 90.0 x 10^9 WBCs/liter. Normal amounts for men and non-pregnant women women ranges from 4.5 - 10.0 x 10^9 WBCs/liter. After transfusions and treatment, they were able to bring the WBC count down to normal levels. As her chemotherapy hyper-CVAD drugs take effect, her WBC count has slowly dropped. Right now, it is at 1.2 x 10^9 WBCs/liter. She is classified as neutropenic and put on a neutropenic diet where she avoids anything fresh that can potentially bring increase infection. During this period, it is critical that she does not get sick since it is more difficult for her body to ward off infection with such a low WBC count. She has already had most of her chemo drugs for this first cycle of hyper-CVAD and now is the waiting period for the drug to wipe out the bad WBCs and wait for the body to rebuild the good WBCs. To help with rebuilding, Dr. Lewis has prescribed injections of Leukine into the stomach.Leukine is the trade name for Sargramostim. According to Wikipedia recombinant granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) that functions as an immunostimulator. Yes. Let's try the description from Leukine.com:Leukine is used to help the number and function of white blood cells after bone marrow transplantation, in cases of bone marrow transplantation failure or engraftment delay, before and after peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, and following induction chemotherapy in older patients...Basically, it is a drug to help the little white blood cell army rebuild its force.