Patent ID: 9611476
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: A61K,A61N,C12N

Claim:
1. A method of increasing survival rate of bone marrow or stem cells transplanted to a cancer subject comprising the following steps: applying a cancer treatment to a cancer subject, said cancer treatment having a risk of depleting native bone marrow or stem cells in said cancer subject; transplanting bone marrow or stem cells to said cancer subject, and applying remote ischemic conditioning to said cancer subject, wherein said remote ischemic conditioning includes a plurality of repeated intermittent applications of an ischemic stress to a limb of said cancer subject cancer subject, said intermittent applications are conducted non-invasively by intermittently reducing or occluding blood flow to a limb of said cancer subject according to a predefined remote ischemic conditioning schedule over predefined periods of time alternated with predefined periods of time when application of said ischemic stress is withdrawn.