title: A comparison of the outcomes of children with acute myelogenous leukemia in either first or second complete remission (CR1 vs CR2) following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at a single transplant center.
abstract: We reviewed 70 consecutive children with AML who received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in our institution between 1994 and 2005. Forty-seven children were transplanted in CR1 and 23 were transplanted in CR2. BU/CY was the most common pretransplant conditioning regimen for CR1 patients and a TBI-based conditioning regimen was the most common regimen for CR2 patients. Most patients transplanted in CR1 (81%) received related donor HSCT, whereas most of the CR2 patients (74%) received unrelated donor HSCT. Expectedly, there was a significant increase in acute GVHD incidence in CR2 patients (40 vs 25% for grades I-II and 30 vs 10% for grades III-IV; P=0.02) and a significant increase in transplant-related mortality (38 vs 11%; P=0.01). Although the difference between 3-year EFS for CR1 and CR2 was not statistically significant, there was a significantly superior 3-year overall survival for CR1 patients (74 vs 51%; P=0.05). Children with relapsed AML who achieve and maintain remission until HSCT, have a reasonable survival, but the outcome of children receiving HSCT in CR1 remains superior.
authors.affiliation: Division of Haematology/Oncology, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. adam.gassas@sickkids.ca
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gassas
authors.forename: M Kashif
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Ishaqi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Afzal
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Finkelstein-Shechter
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dupuis
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Doyle
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000628:therapy*; D012074:Remission Induction; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous