Reduced-intensity conditioning for unrelated donor progenitor cell transplantation: long-term follow-up of the first 285 reported to the national marrow donor program. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2007 Jul;13(7):844-52
Date
06/21/2007Pubmed ID
17580263DOI
10.1016/j.bbmt.2007.03.011Scopus ID
2-s2.0-34250192560 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 64 CitationsAbstract
To determine the long-term outcome of patients undergoing unrelated donor transplantation (URD) after a reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen, we performed a retrospective analysis of the transplant outcomes of the first 5 years of RIC experience as reported to the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). Patients were included if they were older than 18 years and had undergone a URD transplant procured through the NMDP from January 1, 1996 until May 31, 2001, with an RIC regimen for a hematologic malignancy. The number of URDs performed using an RIC increased from 59 during 1996 to 1999, to 149 in the year 2000. RIC recipients were older (53 vs. 33 years) and had a higher likelihood of having advanced disease (81% vs. 51%) when compared to patients undergoing a myeloablative conditioning regimen during the same time period. The 5-year survival rate is 23% (95% confidence interval [CI]; 18, 28), whereas the 5 year incidence of progression/relapse is 43.4% (95% CI; 37,49). Prognostic factors for better overall survival on multivariate analysis were earlier disease stage, longer time to transplant from diagnosis, better HLA match, >or=90% performance score, and use of peripheral blood stem cells. This analysis demonstrates that long-term survival and disease control can be obtained with URD progenitor cell transplantation after RIC conditioning. However, only prospective trials will define the optimal role of this therapy in patients with hematologic malignancies. Therefore, URD transplantation with RIC should continue to be explored in the context of clinical trials.
Author List
Giralt S, Logan B, Rizzo D, Zhang MJ, Ballen K, Emmanouilides C, Nath R, Parker P, Porter D, Sandmaier B, Waller EK, Barker J, Pavletic S, Weisdorf DAuthors
Brent R. Logan PhD Director, Professor in the Data Science Institute department at Medical College of WisconsinJ. Douglas Rizzo MD, MS Director, Center Associate Director, Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Mei-Jie Zhang PhD Professor in the Data Science Institute department at Medical College of Wisconsin
MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AdolescentAdult
Aged
Disease-Free Survival
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Government Programs
Hematologic Neoplasms
Humans
Male
National Health Programs
Stem Cell Transplantation
Survival Rate
Tissue Donors
Transplantation Conditioning
Transplantation, Homologous
United States