title: Immunotherapy following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: potential for synergistic effects.
abstract: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a particularly important treatment for hematologic malignancies. Unfortunately, following allogeneic HSCT, graft-versus-host disease, immunosuppression and susceptibility to opportunistic infections remain among the most substantial problems restricting the efficacy and use of this procedure, particularly for cancer. Adoptive immunotherapy and/or manipulation of the graft offer ways to attack residual cancer as well as other transplant-related complications. Recent exciting discoveries have demonstrated that HSCT could be expanded to solid tissue cancers with profound effects on the effectiveness of adoptive immunotherapy. This review will provide a background regarding HSCT, discuss the complications that make it such a complex treatment procedure following up with current immunotherapeutic strategies and discuss emerging approaches in applying immunotherapy in HSCT for cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA.
authors.forename: Myriam N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Bouchlaka
authors.forename: Doug
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Redelman
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D020350:Graft vs Tumor Effect / Q000276:immunology; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016219:Immunotherapy, Adoptive / Q000379:methods*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome