title: Improving Outcome of Hodgkins Disease with Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.
abstract: We report analysis of all consecutive Hodgkins disease patients undergoing autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant from September 1999 to December 2014. Out of total 38 patients 26 were males and 12 were females. 32 were adults and 6 were pediatric (<18 years). None were elderly. Median age was 28 years (9-61). All received BEAM protocol as conditioning regimen. Median engraftment time for granulocytes was 12 and 14 days for platelets. Thirty three (86.84 %) patients achieved complete remission out of which 8 (24.24 %) had further relapse. Transplant related mortality occurred in 4 (10 %) patients. Finally 26 (78.78 %) patients were disease free at median follow up of 60 months and median disease free survival (DFS) was 35 months. DFS was 66.66 and 65 %, respectively on 3 and 5 years. While overall survival was 70.83 and 70 % on 3 and 5  years, respectively.
authors.affiliation: GCRI, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: Shreeniwas
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Raut
authors.affiliation: GCRI, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: Sandip
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: GCRI, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: Kamalesh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: GCRI, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: Kinnari
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.affiliation: GCRI, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: Shailesh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Talati
authors.affiliation: GCRI, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parikh
authors.affiliation: GCRI, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: Asha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anand
authors.affiliation: GCRI, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: Harsha
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Panchal
authors.affiliation: GCRI, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: Apurva
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.affiliation: GCRI, Ahmedabad, India.
authors.forename: Akhil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jain
keywords: Autologus; Hodgkins; Stem cell; Transplantation