title: Autologous bone marrow transplantation for Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
abstract: Autologous bone marrow transplantation has curative potential in patients with both Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who have relapsed following conventional therapy. Autologous bone marrow transplantation allows administration of higher doses of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or combined-modality therapy than is otherwise possible, often resulting in increased cure rates (20% to 50%) versus standard-dose therapy. In the past, transplanted marrow cells required 3 weeks to proliferate, leaving the pancytopenic patient prone to bleeding and infections, as well as nonhematologic toxicity caused by the high-dose therapeutic intervention; mortality rates from autologous bone marrow transplantation were 10% to 20%. Now, however, the use of hematopoietic growth factors with primed peripheral blood progenitor cells has resulted in rapid marrow engraftment and a reduction in induction mortality rates to less than 5%. Studies investigating the use of newer hematopoietic growth factors, as well as applying autologous bone marrow transplantation in high-risk remission patients, are currently ongoing.
authors.affiliation: Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Bolwell
mesh_terms: D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000628:therapy*; D016879:Salvage Therapy; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D017211:Treatment Failure
chemical_list: D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor