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Report from the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry. Clin Transpl 1992:83-90

Date

01/01/1992

Pubmed ID

1306725

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-0027018227 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   2 Citations

Abstract

The number of allogeneic BMTs performed worldwide continues to increase. In addition, the characteristics of patients, donors, and selected treatments are changing. In BMT for leukemia during the 1980s there was a marked increase in transplants for early disease, the use of unrelated donors, and utilization of preparative regimens without radiation. Although treatment-related mortality declined during this period, there was only a modest decrease in relapse rates, indicating the need for more effective antileukemia strategies. The IBMTR collects data from many centers, and, as a consequence, it is uniquely suited to examine clinical situations in which patient accrual at a single institution would be insufficient for a study to be performed. In such analyses, BMT was shown to be an effective treatment for Ph1-positive ALL. Patients tended to have earlier relapses and lower probabilities of LFS than Ph1-negative ALL but the differences were not statistically significant. BMT was also shown to be effective in patients with acute leukemia failing to ever go into remission, most of whom would die within the first 6 months following diagnosis. The IBMTR is a premier example of international scientific collaboration. Its success is a consequence of the desire of investigators throughout the world to combine their clinical data for statistical analysis in order to accelerate and improve patient care.

Author List

Rowlings PA, Horowitz MM, Rimm AA, Sobocinski KA, Zhang MJ, Bortin 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
Anemia, Aplastic
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Humans
International Agencies
Leukemia
Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive
Registries
Survival Rate