title: Long-term remission of blastic natural killer-cell lymphoma after autologous peripheral blood stem-cell transplantation.
abstract: We report here a case of blastic natural killer (NK)-cell lymphoma treated successfully with autologous peripheral blood stem-cell transplantation (APBSCT). A 57-year-old man had skin tumors and was diagnosed as having blastic NK-cell lymphoma by tumor biopsy. Skin, lymph nodes, left tonsil, and bone marrow were involved at presentation. Chemotherapy led to complete remission (CR). To sustain CR, the patient underwent high-dose chemotherapy in combination with 12 Gy of total-body irradiation (TBI) followed by autologous peripheral blood stem-cell rescue. He showed rapid recovery of hematopoiesis and could tolerate regimen-related toxicity after APBSCT. He has maintained long-term remission for 20 months after APBSCT. From this case, we concluded that APBSCT with preconditioning by TBI-containing regimens might be a cure-attaining treatment for disseminated blastic NK-cell lymphoma and should be considered as a choice of treatment in cases where no suitable donors for allogeneic transplantation are available.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology & Immunology, Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan. myjody@ipch.jp
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Mio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maekawa
authors.forename: Yoshihisa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Mikio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ueda
mesh_terms: D001752:Blast Crisis; D006410:Hematopoiesis; D006801:Humans; D007694:Killer Cells, Natural / Q000473:pathology*; D016399:Lymphoma, T-Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D036102:Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D012074:Remission Induction / Q000379:methods; D012878:Skin Neoplasms; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning / Q000379:methods; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014916:Whole-Body Irradiation