Prolonged disease-free survival after autologous bone marrow transplantation in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with a poor prognosis.
Prolonged disease-free survival after autologous bone marrow transplantation in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with a poor prognosis.
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预后不良的非霍奇金淋巴瘤患者自体骨髓移植后无病生存期延长。
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10.1056/nejm198706113162402
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1987
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Yeap,B
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Takvorian,T;Canellos,GP;Ritz,J;Freedman,AS;Anderson,KC;Mauch,P;Tarbell,N;Coral,F;Daley,H;Yeap,B
Despite advances in the primary treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, relapse is common and treatment after relapse is unsatisfactory. Autologous bone marrow transplantation, although sometimes successful, has generally had disappointing results. We conducted a trial of such transplantation in patients with relapsed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, using strict criteria in selecting patients; we included only those in whom disease was minimal after conventional treatment (nodal disease <2 cm and bone marrow involvement ≤5 percent on histologic examination) and whose tumor cells expressed the B1 antigen. Forty-nine patients meeting these criteria received cyclophosphamide and whole-body irradiation supported by transplantation of autologous bone marrow that had been treated in vitro with anti-B1 monoclonal antibody and complement. All patients had features of a poor prognosis, including relapse from primary chemotherapy, histologic conversion to more aggressive disease, and extranodal dissemination. Thirty-three patients had a history of bone marrow involvement — 16 at the time that marrow was obtained.Hematologic and immunologic engraftment was achieved in all patients. Only two treatment-related deaths occurred, from venoocclusive disease of the liver and intracerebral hemorrhage, respectively. Disease-free remission without maintenance therapy has lasted from >2 to >52 months in 34 patients (median follow-up, >11 months). These results are similar to those obtained in patients with advanced, high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treated with primary combination chemotherapy.This study demonstrates that autologous bone marrow transplantation has tolerable toxicity and high efficacy in a subset of patients who are otherwise incurable but still responsive to cytoreductive therapy. The results suggest a role for such transplantation in the treatment of selected patients with newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. (N Engl J Med 1987; 316:1499–1505.)