title: Predictive factors of response and survival in myelodysplastic syndrome treated with erythropoietin and G-CSF: the GFM experience.
abstract: We analyzed prognostic factors of response, response duration, and possible impact on survival of epoetin alpha, epoetin beta, or darbepoetin alpha (DAR) with or without granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in 403 myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) patients. Sixty-two percent (40% major and 22% minor) and 50% erythroid responses were seen, and median response duration was 20 and 24 months according to IWG 2000 and 2006 criteria, respectively. Significantly higher response rates were observed with less than 10% blasts, low and int-1 International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS), red blood cell transfusion independence, serum EPO level less than 200 IU/L, and, with IWG 2006 criteria only, shorter interval between diagnosis and treatment. Significantly longer response duration was associated with major response (IWG 2000 criteria), IPSS low to INT-1, blasts less than 5%, and absence of multilineage dysplasia. Minor responses according to IWG 2000 were reclassified as "nonresponders" or "responders" according to IWG 2006 criteria. However, among those IWG 2000 minor responders, response duration did not differ between IWG 2006 responders and nonresponders. Multivariate adjusted comparisons of survival between our cohort and the untreated MDS cohort used to design IPSS showed similar rate of progression to acute myeloid leukemia in both cohorts, but significantly better overall survival in our cohort, suggesting that epoetin or DAR treatment may have a favorable survival impact in MDS.
authors.affiliation: Service d'hématologie, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris, Université Paris, France. sophie.park@cch.aphp.fr
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grabar
authors.forename: Charikleia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kelaidi
authors.forename: Odile
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authors.lastname: Beyne-Rauzy
authors.forename: Françoise
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Picard
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bardet
authors.forename: Valérie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Coiteux
authors.forename: Geneviève
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leroux
authors.forename: Pascale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lepelley
authors.forename: Marie-Thérèse
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.forename: Stéphane
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authors.lastname: Cheze
authors.forename: Béatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mahé
authors.forename: Augustin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferrant
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ravoet
authors.forename: Martine
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authors.lastname: Escoffre-Barbe
authors.forename: Lionel
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authors.lastname: Adès
authors.forename: Norbert
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authors.lastname: Vey
authors.forename: Lina
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authors.lastname: Aljassem
authors.forename: Aspasia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stamatoullas
authors.forename: Lionel
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authors.lastname: Mannone
authors.forename: Hervé
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dombret
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bourgeois
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Pierre
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authors.lastname: Fenaux
authors.forename: François
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authors.lastname: Dreyfus
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001752:Blast Crisis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D017707:Erythrocyte Transfusion; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D005260:Female; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D004921:Erythropoietin; D016179:Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor