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Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network Report on the Development of Novel Endpoints and Selection of Promising Approaches for Graft-versus-Host Disease Prevention Trials. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2018 Jun;24(6):1274-1280

Date

01/13/2018

Pubmed ID

29325830

Pubmed Central ID

PMC5993573

DOI

10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.01.002

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85041672720 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   39 Citations

Abstract

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a common complication after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) and associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Preventing GVHD without chronic therapy or increasing relapse is a desired goal. Here we report a benchmark analysis to evaluate the performance of 6 GVHD prevention strategies tested at single institutions compared with a large multicenter outcomes database as a control. Each intervention was compared with the control for the incidence of acute and chronic GVHD and overall survival and against novel composite endpoints: acute and chronic GVHD, relapse-free survival (GRFS), and chronic GVHD, relapse-free survival (CRFS). Modeling GRFS and CRFS using the benchmark analysis further informed the design of 2 clinical trials testing GVHD prophylaxis interventions. This study demonstrates the potential benefit of using an outcomes database to select promising interventions for multicenter clinical trials and proposes novel composite endpoints for use in GVHD prevention trials.

Author List

Pasquini MC, Logan B, Jones RJ, Alousi AM, Appelbaum FR, Bolaños-Meade J, Flowers MED, Giralt S, Horowitz MM, Jacobsohn D, Koreth J, Levine JE, Luznik L, Maziarz R, Mendizabal A, Pavletic S, Perales MA, Porter D, Reshef R, Weisdorf D, Antin JH

Authors

Mary M. Horowitz MD, MS Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Brent R. Logan PhD Director, Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Marcelo C. Pasquini MD, MS Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin

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

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Biomarkers
Clinical Protocols
Clinical Trials as Topic
Databases, Factual
Disease-Free Survival
Female
Graft vs Host Disease
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Recurrence
Treatment Outcome
Young Adult