title: Treatment of multiple myeloma with intensive chemotherapy followed by autologous BMT using marrow purged with 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide.
abstract: In August 1988 we began a program in which multiple myeloma patients achieving < or = 10% marrow plasma cells and > or = 50% reduction in paraprotein levels after the VAD (vincristine, doxorubicin, dexamethasone) regimen underwent bone marrow harvest, ex vivo marrow purging with 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide (4-HC) and marrow cryopreservation. Conditioning with a regimen of high-dose busulfan (total dose 16 mg/kg), cyclophosphamide (120 mg/kg) and melphalan (90 mg/m2) (BU + CY + MEL) followed by autologous BMT was then carried out. Seventeen of the 24 patients who received VAD (71%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 49 to 87%) were eligible for bone marrow harvest. One patient was not harvested because of non-medical reasons; two patients who underwent marrow harvest had gross plasmacytosis present in biopsies performed intraoperatively and did not undergo BMT. Fourteen patients (58%, 95% CI 37 to 78%) received BU + CY + MEL and 4-HC-purged autologous BMT. The median time to recovery of 0.5 x 10(9)/l neutrophils was 19 days (range 14 to 26) while the last platelet transfusion was given on a median of day 32 (range 10 to 46) post-BMT in the evaluable patients. The major non-hematologic toxicity was hepatic; two patients in complete remission died of hepatic veno-occlusive disease. Another patient succumbed to fungal infection despite neutrophil recovery. The remaining 11 patients achieved responses (complete in six and partial in five) associated with a normal performance status.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplantation Program of British Columbia, Division of Hematology, Vancouver General Hospital, Canada.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Reece
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Barnett
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Connors
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Klingemann
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Shepherd
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Sutherland
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016465:Bone Marrow Purging / Q000009:adverse effects; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002066:Busulfan; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003520:Cyclophosphamide / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D003561:Cytarabine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects; D003907:Dexamethasone / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015993:Life Tables; D008297:Male; D008558:Melphalan; D008875:Middle Aged; D009101:Multiple Myeloma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014750:Vincristine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D003561:Cytarabine; D014750:Vincristine; D003907:Dexamethasone; D003520:Cyclophosphamide; D002066:Busulfan; D008558:Melphalan; C011272:perfosfamide