[Therapy of highly malignant non-Hodgkin lymphoma with high-dose chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation].
Patients with intermediate or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma are rarely cured of their disease after the failure of conventional therapy. High-dose chemotherapy followed by transplantation of either autologous marrow (ABMT) or peripheral stem cells (PBSCT) offers such patients a new possibility of cure. To patients younger than 60 years and without contraindications high-dose chemotherapy should be offered in case of relapse and bad prognosis. The PARMA-study demonstrated, that high-dose chemotherapy with subsequent autologous stem cell transplants is superior to conventional chemotherapy for relapsing patients. However high-dose chemotherapy in first complete or partial remission followed by ABMT and PBSCT as post-remission therapy for adult NHL has yielded only similar results randomized to those achieved with conventional chemotherapy in several prospectively studies. This approach should be limited to patients with bad prognostic factors (high-intermediate or high-risk groups according to the International Prognostic Factor Project). The success of ABMT and PBSCT in treating these diseases mandates exploration of the best high-dose chemotherapy, the use of autologous or allogenic bone marrow resp. peripheral stem cell for haematopoietic reconstitution and technical aspects such as purging of tumor cells, the short- and long-term transplant-related mortality continues to be a major concern.
II. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Christian-Albrechts-Universitt, Kiel.
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