Fefer A, Cheever MA, Thomas ED, Boyd C, Ramberg R, Glucksberg H, Buckner CD, Storb R. Disappearance of Ph1-positive cells in four patients with chronic granulocytic leukemia after chemotherapy, irradiation and marrow transplantation from an identical twin.
N Engl J Med 1979;
300:333-7. [PMID:
366408 DOI:
10.1056/nejm197902153000702]
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Abstract
Four patients (21, 41, 13 and 38 years of age) with a history of chronic granulocytic leukemia for 12, 10, 11, and 106 months, respectively, were treated with dimethyl busulfan, cyclophosphamide, 920 rads of total-body irradiation and intravenous marrow infusion from normal, genetically identical twins. Serial chromosome analyses were performed on marrow aspirates cultured without mitotic stimulants. No Ph1-positive cells were detected in the marrows from the normal twins, whereas just before therapy, all 100 metaphases examined from each patient were Ph1-positive. Chromosome analyses were performed three to five times per patient after transplantation, and not a single Ph1-positive cell was detected. The patients remain hematologically normal 22, 23, 26 and 31 months after transplantation. The results show that the Ph1-positive clone can be eradicated by vigorous therapy and that the marrow in chronic granulocytic leukemia can be repopulated by stem cells from normal twins.
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