Abstract
Survival for children with relapsed T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is poor when treated with chemotherapy alone, and outcomes after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is not well described. Two hundred twenty-nine children with T-ALL in second complete remission (CR2) received an HCT after myeloablative conditioning between 2000 and 2011 and were reported to the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research. Median age was 10 years (range, 2 to 18). Donor source was umbilical cord blood (26%), matched sibling bone marrow (38%), or unrelated bone marrow/peripheral blood (36%). Acute (grades II to IV) and chronic graft-versus-host disease occurred in, respectively, 35% (95% confidence interval [CI], 27% to 45%) and 26% (95% CI, 20% to 33%) of patients. Transplant-related mortality at day 100 and 3-year relapse rates were 13% (95% CI, 9% to 18%) and 30% (95% CI, 24% to 37%), respectively. Three-year overall survival and disease-free survival rates were 48% (95% CI, 41% to 55%) and 46% (95% CI, 39% to 52%), respectively. In multivariate analysis, patients with bone marrow relapse, with or without concurrent extramedullary relapse before HCT, were most likely to relapse (hazard ratio, 3.94; P = .005) as compared with isolated extramedullary disease. In conclusion, HCT for pediatric T-ALL in CR2 demonstrates reasonable and durable outcomes, and consideration for HCT is warranted.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2154-2159 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Financial disclosure: The CIBMTR is supported by Public Health Service Grant/Cooperative Agreement U24-CA076518 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) , the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) , and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ; Grant/Cooperative Agreement 5U10HL069294 from the NHLBI and NCI ; a contract ( HHSH250201200016 C) with Health Resources and Services Administration ; 2 grants ( N00014-13-1-0039 and N00014-14-1-0028 ) from the Office of Naval Research ; and grants from Actinium Pharmaceuticals ; Allos Therapeutics, Inc. ; Amgen, Inc. ; anonymous donation to the Medical College of Wisconsin; Ariad ; Be the Match Foundation ; Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association ; Celgene Corporation ; Chimerix, Inc. ; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Fresenius-Biotech North America, Inc. ; Gamida Cell Teva Joint Venture Ltd. ; Genentech, Inc. ; Gentium SpA ; Genzyme Corporation ; GlaxoSmithKline ; Health Research, Inc. Roswell Park Cancer Institute ; HistoGenetics, Inc. ; Incyte Corporation ; Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation ; Kiadis Pharma ; The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ; Medac GmbH ; The Medical College of Wisconsin ; Merck & Co, Inc. ; Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Co. ; Milliman USA, Inc. ; Miltenyi Biotec, Inc. ; National Marrow Donor Program ; Onyx Pharmaceuticals ; Optum Healthcare Solutions, Inc. ; Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. ; Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. ; Perkin Elmer, Inc. ; Remedy Informatics ; Sanofi US ; Seattle Genetics ; Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals ; Soligenix, Inc. ; St. Baldrick's Foundation ; StemCyte, A Global Cord Blood Therapeutics Co. ; Stemsoft Software, Inc. ; Swedish Orphan Biovitrum ; Tarix Pharmaceuticals ; TerumoBCT ; Teva Neuroscience, Inc. ; THERAKOS, Inc. ; University of Minnesota ; University of Utah ; and Wellpoint, Inc. The views expressed in this article do not reflect the official policy or position of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of the Navy, the Department of Defense, the Health Resources and Services Administration, or any other agency of the U.S. Government.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.
Keywords
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- Pediatric
- Relapse
- T-cell ALL
- Transplantation