title: Reduced intensity conditioning allogeneic stem cell transplantation for adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a retrospective study from the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.
abstract: This retrospective study reported the outcome of 97 adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients who received a reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic stem cell transplantation. With a median follow-up of 2.8 years, two year overall-survival, leukemia-free survival and non-relapse mortality were significantly better in patients transplanted in first complete remission (CR1, 52+/-9%; 42+/-10%; and 18+/-7% respectively) compared with those transplanted in more advanced phase (p=0.003, p=0.002 and p=0.01 respectively). In multivariate analysis, disease status (CR1 vs. advanced; p=0.001) and chronic graft-vs-host disease (p=0.01) were associated with an improved overall-survival, suggesting that reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic stem cell transplantation is feasible in patients with high risk lymphoblastic leukemia in remission at transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Hématologie Clinique, CHU Hôtel Dieu, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France. mohamad.mohty@univ-nantes.fr
authors.forename: Mohamad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mohty
authors.forename: Myriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Labopin
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tabrizzi
authors.forename: Niklas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Theorin
authors.forename: Axel A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Fauser
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rambaldi
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maertens
authors.forename: Shimon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Slavin
authors.forename: Ignazio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Majolino
authors.forename: Arnon
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nagler
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blaise
authors.forename: Vanderson
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rocha
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy; D012074:Remission Induction; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation; D015996:Survival Rate; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous