Abstract
Nonmyeloablative hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) has been used to treat patients with advanced or high-risk lymphoid malignancies. We studied 65 patients (median age 46 years) receiving an umbilical cord blood (UCB) graft after a single conditioning regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide (50 mg/kg) on day -6, fludarabine (40 mg/m2) daily on days -6 to -2, as well as a single fraction of total-body irradiation (TBI) (200 cGy) along with cyclosporine mycophenolate mofetil immunosuppression. Median time to neutrophil and platelet recovery was 7.5 days (range: 0-32) and 46 days (range: 8-111), respectively. Cumulative incidences of grade II-IV, grade III-IV acute, and chronic graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD, cGVHD) were 57% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 43%-70%), 25% (95% CI: 14%-35%), and 19% (95% CI: 9%-29%), respectively. Transplant-related mortality at 3 years was 15% (95% CI: 5%-26%). Median follow-up was 23 months. The progression free-survival (PFS), current PFS and overall survival (OS) were 34% (95% CI: 21%-47%), 49% (95% CI: 36%-62%), and 55% (95% CI: 42%-70%) at 3 years. Based on our data, we conclude that a nonmyeloablative conditioning regimen followed by UCB transplantation is an effective treatment for patients with advanced lymphoid malignancies who lack a suitable sibling donor.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 214-222 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Financial disclosure: This work was supported in part by grants from the National Cancer Institute PO1-CA65493 (J.E.W., T.E.D., P.B.M., J.S.M.) and the Children's Cancer Research Fund (J.E.W., T.E.D.). The authors acknowledge Dr. John Klein for his assistance on the multistate model, and Michael Franklin for assistance in editing and preparing this manuscript.
Keywords
- Lymphoid malignancies
- Nonmyeloablative
- Umbilical cord blood