title: Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (excluding Burkitt and lymphoblastic lymphoma): a series of 73 patients from the SFGM database. Sociét Française de Greffe de Moelle.
abstract: The place of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) in the treatment of aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) remains controversial. We conducted a retrospective study of French experience in allografting NHL between 1984 and 1994. To improve the homogeneity of the study population, cases of low-grade, Burkitt and lymphoblastic NHL were excluded. 73 patients were included in the analysis. Median age at transplantation was 35 years (range 9-61 years); 64 patients were in stage IV and 45 had bone marrow involvement at diagnosis. At the time of transplantation, 46 patients had sensitive disease (25 in complete remission; CR). The overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) rates were 41% and 40% respectively at 5 years (median follow-up of survivors 90 months). The probability of disease progression was 30% at 5 years, and only one relapse occurred after 15 months. 32 patients died of transplantation-related complications. In multivariate analysis, pretransplant complete remission was the main factor associated with longer survival (OS at 60 months of 76% among the 25 patients in CR at transplant and of 23% among the 48 patients not in CR at transplant). Neither acute nor chronic graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) influenced the relapse rate. In conclusion, in this high-risk population the overall results of allogeneic BMT were encouraging, despite a high transplant-related mortality rate. We believe this procedure should be studied further in prospective controlled trials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Haematology, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtière, Paris, France.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dhedin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giraudier
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gaulard
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Esperou
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authors.lastname: Ifrah
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Michallet
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authors.lastname: Milpied
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rio
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Cahn
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authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Molina
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Laporte
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authors.lastname: Guilhot
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authors.lastname: Kuentz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D018450:Disease Progression; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D016130:Immunophenotyping; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous