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Survival of patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemia relapsing after bone marrow transplantation: comparison with patients receiving conventional chemotherapy. Br J Haematol 1997 Oct;99(1):23-9

Date

11/14/1997

Pubmed ID

9359497

DOI

10.1046/j.1365-2141.1997.3313150.x

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-9844245127 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   6 Citations

Abstract

Treatment with busulphan and/or hydroxyurea rarely produces remission in patients with chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) in chronic phase. HLA-identical sibling transplants almost always produce remission, and only about 20% of patients relapse post-transplant. The increased anti-leukaemic efficacy of transplants results from intensive pretransplant treatment and immune-mediated anti-leukaemia effects. We studied 433 patients surviving > or = 2 years after diagnosis of CML to determine if patients who have relapsed after a transplant in chronic phase have longer survival from diagnosis than comparable subjects receiving chemotherapy. The chemotherapy cohort included 344 adults < 50 years of age treated on consecutive trials of the Italian Cooperative Study Group on CML between 1973 and 1986. The transplant cohort included 89 patients reported to the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry who relapsed after an HLA-identical sibling bone marrow transplant carried out between 1978 and 1992. Survivals in the two groups were compared using Cox proportional hazards regression to adjust for prognostic variables. Median survival was 65 months in the chemotherapy cohort and 86 months in the transplant cohort. The 7-year probability (95% confidence interval) of survival was 34% (28-39%) in the chemotherapy cohort and 57% (43-70%) in the transplant cohort (P=0003). There was no difference in survival of patients relapsing after T-cell depleted and non-T-cell-depleted transplants. We conclude that patients who relapse after an HLA-identical sibling bone marrow transplant for CML in chronic phase have longer survival from diagnosis than comparable patients receiving chemotherapy. This effect is most likely to be the result of intensive chemotherapy and/or radiation given for pretransplant conditioning.

Author List

Zhang MJ, Baccarani M, Gale RP, McGlave PB, Atkinson K, Champlin RE, Dicke KA, Giralt S, Gluckman E, Goldman JM, Klein JP, Herzig RH, Masaoka T, O'Reilly RJ, Rozman C, Rowlings PA, Sobocinski KA, Speck B, Zwaan FE, Horowitz MM

Authors

Mary M. Horowitz MD, MS Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Mei-Jie Zhang PhD Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adolescent
Adult
Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Cohort Studies
Combined Modality Therapy
Female
Humans
Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive
Male
Middle Aged
Recurrence
Risk Factors
Survival Analysis
Survival Rate
Transplantation Conditioning
Treatment Outcome