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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-9-24
pubmed:abstractText
We evaluated prognostic factors of melphalan/fludarabine-based dose-reduced allografts in patients with multiple myeloma. From 1998 to 2002, 120 patients with multiple myeloma were treated with melphalan/fludarabine followed by allogeneic stem cell transplantation. The cumulative risk at 1 year for treatment-related mortality (TRM) was 18% (95% confidence interval [CI], 12%-28%). In a multivariate analysis, relapse after prior high-dose chemotherapy was the most significant risk factor for TRM (hazard ratio [HR], 2.80; 95% CI, 1.16-6.74; P =.02), relapse (HR, 4.14; 95% CI, 2.04-8.38; P <.001), event-free survival (HR, 3.11; 95% CI, 1.77-5.46; P <.001), and overall survival (HR, 2.69; 95% CI, 1.35-5.35; P =.005). In addition, relapse was also significantly diminished by chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in a time-dependent Cox model (HR, 0.37; 95% CI, 0.16-0.87; P =.02). At transplantation, 8% of the patients were in complete remission, whereas 27% had progressive disease. After allografting, 49% achieved complete remission, and 38% achieved partial remission. In a subgroup of patients with chemosensitivity at transplantation and no relapse after prior high-dose chemotherapy who underwent transplantation with peripheral blood stem cells (n = 46), the cumulative risk of TRM at 1 year was only 8% (95% CI, 1%-54%). The 2-year estimated event-free and overall survival was 60% (95% CI, 42%-78%) and 75% (95% CI, 59%-91%), respectively, for related donors (n = 34) and was 81% (95% CI, 59%-100%) and 92% (95% CI, 76%-100%), respectively, for unrelated donors (n = 12).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1083-8791
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
698-708
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Chronic Disease, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Graft Survival, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Graft vs Host Disease, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Melphalan, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Multiple Myeloma, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Prognosis, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Recurrence, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Remission Induction, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Salvage Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Survival Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Transplantation, Autologous, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Transplantation, Homologous, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Treatment Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:15389436-Vidarabine
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Relapse to prior autograft and chronic graft-versus-host disease are the strongest prognostic factors for outcome of melphalan/fludarabine-based dose-reduced allogeneic stem cell transplantation in patients with multiple myeloma.
pubmed:affiliation
Bone Marrow Transplantation, University Hospital Hamburg, Germany. nkroeger@uke.uni-hamburg.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't