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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-4-5
pubmed:abstractText
High-dose therapy with autologous stem cell therapy (ASCT) has become the treatment of choice for eligible patients with myeloma. We analysed retrospectively the prognostic influence of pre-transplant characteristics and transplant modalities on response and survival in 211 myeloma patients who were transplanted in our centre between 1994 and 2004. All patients received peripheral blood stem cell support after conditioning with melphalan alone (183 patients), or melphalan and total blood irradiation (28 patients). We evaluated the influence of age, type of multiple myeloma, status prior and post ASCT, previous treatment regimens, time of ASCT from diagnosis, year of autograft, dose of re-infused CD34(+) cells, plasma cell infiltration and beta2-microglobulin at diagnosis on overall survival (OS) and event-free survival (EFS) to define patients with better prognosis. Median OS and EFS from transplantation were 50.9 and 20.1 months, respectively. Median OS from diagnosis was 68.8 months. Transplant-related mortality was 1.4%. Lower beta2-microglobulin levels, achievement of complete remission (CR) post transplant and lower plasma cell infiltration at diagnosis and transplant correlated with longer EFS and OS, whereas CR at transplant and low international prognostic index at transplant correlated with better EFS. Higher CD34(+) cell dose correlated with improved OS. We conclude that ASCT is safe and effective and the outcome is independent of age, time from diagnosis, previous treatment and conditioning regimen.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0268-3369
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
731-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Antigens, CD34, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Cohort Studies, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Disease-Free Survival, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Melphalan, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Models, Statistical, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Multiple Myeloma, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Prognosis, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Remission Induction, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Retrospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Stem Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Transplantation, Autologous, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Transplantation Conditioning, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-Treatment Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:16501593-beta 2-Microglobulin
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Predictive factors for survival in myeloma patients who undergo autologous stem cell transplantation: a single-centre experience in 211 patients.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article