title: Study of conditioning regimens with or without high-dose radiotherapy before autologous stem cell transplantation for treating aggressive lymphoma.
abstract: The aim and objective of the study is to compare the efficacy of conditioning regimens with or without high-dose radiotherapy for treating aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Eighty-nine aggressive NHL patients who underwent high-dose therapy in combination with autologous stem cell transplantation (HDT/ASCT) between 1993 and 2006 were retrospectively studied. HDT was either high-dose chemotherapy alone (CT) or high-dose chemoradiotherapy (CRT). Overall, 37 patients in CT group and 52 in CRT group. The median radiotherapy DT in CRT group was 8 Gy. The median count of reinfused CD34+ cells was 6.26 x 10(6) and 22.16 x 10(6) cells/kg, respectively (p < 0.001). The median time of leukocyte engraftment was 11 days in CT group and 13 days in CRT group (p = 0.003), and the median platelet engraftment time was 12 days in CT group and 11 days in CRT group (p = 0.305). The median event-free survival (EFS) was 102 and 84 months in CT and CRT groups, respectively (p = 0.783), and the median overall survival (OS) was 102 and 121 months in CT and CRT groups, respectively (p = 0.857). Prolonged hospitalization favored EFS (p = 0.013) and OS (p = 0.011). In conclusion, when compared with CT, high-dose CRT does not improve prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, 100021, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Niu
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, 100021, Beijing, China. syuankai@yahoo.com.cn.
authors.forename: Yuankai
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authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, 100021, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Shengyu
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authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, 100021, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
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authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, 100021, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Shikai
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authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, 100021, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, 100021, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Jiangliang
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authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, 100021, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xiaohong
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authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 17 Panjiayuan Nanli, Chaoyang District, 100021, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Xiaohui
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mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011878:Radiotherapy; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning / Q000379:methods*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult