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Fernández-Gutiérrez JA, Reyes-Cisneros OA, Litzow MR, Bojalil-Alvarez L, Garcia-Villasenor E, Gómez-Gomez ET, Murrieta-Alvarez I, Gomez-Almaguer D, Gutierrez-Aguirre CH, Karduss-Urueta AJ, Ruiz-Delgado GJ, Ruiz-Arguelles GJ. High dose melphalan is an adequate preparative regimen for autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in relapsed/refractory lymphoma. Hematology 2022; 27:449-455. [PMID: 35413225 DOI: 10.1080/16078454.2022.2059630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION High-dose melphalan (HD-Mel) has been successfully employed in autografting patients with multiple myeloma. An advantage of this regimen is that the total dose of Mel can be delivered in a single day, being particularly useful when non-frozen hematopoietic stem cells are employed in the autograft. MATERIAL AND METHODS All consecutive patients with R/R lymphomas, both HL and NHL studied and treated at two different centers were prospectively included in a study of ASCT employing a single dose of HD-Mel (200 mg/m2). A group of R/R HL or NHL autografted employing BEAM-like preparative regimens was constructed matched by diagnosis and age. The primary endpoint of the study was overall survival (OS), the secondary endpoint was event-free survival (EFS). RESULTS Twenty-five R/R HL/NHL patients were prospectively accrued in the study. There were 8 (32%) females, 13 (52%) patients had at least 1 adverse effect: 7 (28%) developed mucositis, 5 (20%) neutropenic fever, and 6 (24%) grade IV nausea. In the HD-Mel group, median overall survival (OS) was not achieved and OS at 36 months was 71%, the transplant-related mortality being 0%. In the control group, median OS was not achieved and the 36-month OS was 76%, results not statistically significant (p 0.5). The EFS was also similar in both groups (p 0.5). CONCLUSION HD-Mel alone is non-inferior to a BEAM-like regimen as a preparative regimen for autografting patients with R/R HL and NHL. The regimen is adequate to graft persons with non-frozen stem cells.
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- Hematology, Mayo Clinic Minnesota, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Hematología, Hospital Universitario de Nuevo León "José Eleuterio González", Monterrey, Mexico
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- Centro de Hematología y Medicina Interna de Puebla, Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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Wang YH, Yu SC, Ko BS, Yang YT, Yao M, Tang JL, Huang TC. Correlative analysis of overall survival with clinical characteristics in 127 patients with mantle cell lymphoma: a multi-institutional cohort in Taiwan. Int J Hematol 2020; 112:385-394. [PMID: 32519171 DOI: 10.1007/s12185-020-02903-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Revised: 04/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma often with extranodal involvement at diagnosis, and yet how this feature correlates with survival awaits elucidation. To address this issue, a correlative analysis between clinical features of 127 MCL patients and their overall survival (OS) was conducted. In this cohort, the median age at MCL diagnosis was 62 years and 81% were males. Eighty-four percent of patients were Ann Arbor stage 4, and 15% were blastoid variants. In patients with gastrointestinal MCL, approximately 40% had gastric involvement. In treatment, CHOP-based induction chemotherapy was given to 61.1% of patients. One-third of patients undertook autologous stem cell transplant (SCT), and 4.7% had allogeneic SCT. The median OS was 82 months and well-stratified in MIPI risk groups. In the multivariate analysis for OS, blastoid variants and gastric involvement were both independent risk factors whereas auto-SCT had a protective effect. Overall, this study corroborated with the current understandings and international therapeutic standards for MCL. Auto-SCT associated with a better OS while allo-SCT remained an option for blastoid variants and those who failed Auto-SCT. Interestingly, patients with gastric involvement tended to have worse survival, a finding that spawns more studies to investigate the mechanism.
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- Yu-Hung Wang
- Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan S. Rd., Taipei City, 10002, Taiwan
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- Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan S. Rd., Taipei City, 10002, Taiwan
- Department of Hematological Oncology, National Taiwan University Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan S. Rd., Taipei City, 10002, Taiwan
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan S. Rd., Taipei City, 10002, Taiwan
- Department of Hematological Oncology, National Taiwan University Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan S. Rd., Taipei City, 10002, Taiwan.
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Bendamustine-EAM versus BEAM regimen in patients with mantle cell lymphoma undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation in the frontline setting: a multicenter retrospective study from Lymphoma Study Association (LYSA) centers. Bone Marrow Transplant 2020; 55:1076-1084. [PMID: 31953532 DOI: 10.1038/s41409-020-0783-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2019] [Revised: 12/29/2019] [Accepted: 01/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The combination of carmustine, etoposide, cytarabine, and melphalan (BEAM) as conditioning regimen prior to autologous stem-cell transplantation (ASCT) remains the standard of care for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) who are eligible for transplantation. The replacement of carmustine with bendamustine (BeEAM) was described as a promising alternative in non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The aim of this retrospective study was to compare the BeEAM with the BEAM regimen in MCL patients in the frontline setting. Sixty and 108 patients were included in the BeEAM and the BEAM groups, respectively. At 3 years, progression-free survival (PFS) was significantly higher in the BeEAM than in the BEAM group (84% [73-96] vs. 63% [51-79], p = 0.03). The overall survival was not statistically different between the two groups (p = 0.2). In multivariable analysis, BeEAM regimen remained associated with higher PFS (HR = 0.377, 95% CI, 0.146-0.970; p = 0.043). Subgroup analyses in patients treated with prior rituximab-aracytine induction alone showed that BeEAM improved the PFS compared with BEAM regimen (p = 0.04). Despite the high rate of acute renal failure KDIGO III (32%), treatment-related mortality was not increased with the BeEAM regimen. A prospective randomized trial will be necessary to confirm the beneficial effect of the BeEAM regimen in MCL patients undergoing ASCT.
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Olivieri J, Mosna F, Pelosini M, Fama A, Rattotti S, Giannoccaro M, Carli G, Tisi MC, Ferrero S, Sgherza N, Mazzone AM, Marino D, Calimeri T, Loseto G, Saraceni F, Tomei G, Sica S, Perali G, Codeluppi K, Billio A, Olivieri A, Orciuolo E, Matera R, Stefani PM, Borghero C, Ghione P, Cascavilla N, Lanza F, Chiusolo P, Finotto S, Federici I, Gherlinzoni F, Centurioni R, Fanin R, Zaja F. A Comparison of the Conditioning Regimens BEAM and FEAM for Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Lymphoma: An Observational Study on 1038 Patients From Fondazione Italiana Linfomi. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2018; 24:1814-1822. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2018] [Accepted: 05/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Bayraktar UD, Bashir Q, Qazilbash M, Champlin RE, Ciurea SO. Fifty years of melphalan use in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2012; 19:344-56. [PMID: 22922522 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2012.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2012] [Accepted: 08/17/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Melphalan remains the most widely used agent in preparative regimens for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (SCT). From its initial discovery more than 50 years ago, it has been gradually incorporated in the conditioning regimens for both autologous and allogeneic transplantations because of its myeloablative properties and broad antitumor effects as a DNA alkylating agent. Melphalan remains the mainstay conditioning for multiple myeloma and lymphomas, and it has been used successfully in preparative regimens of a variety of other hematological and nonhematological malignancies. The addition of newer agents to conditioning, such as bortezomib or lenalidomide for myeloma or clofarabine for myeloid malignancies, may improve antitumor effects for transplantation, whereas melphalan in combination with alemtuzumab may represent a backbone for future cellular therapy because of reliable engraftment and low toxicity profile. This review summarizes the development and the current use of this remarkable drug in hematopoietic SCT.
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- Ulas D Bayraktar
- Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Lazarus HM, Phillips GL, Herzig RH, Hurd DD, Wolff SN, Herzig GP. High-Dose Melphalan and the Development of Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation: 25 Years Later. J Clin Oncol 2008; 26:2240-3. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2007.14.7827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Hillard M. Lazarus
- Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Ireland Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University
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- Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
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- Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant, University of Louisville, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, KY
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant, University of Louisville, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, KY
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Bone marrow transplantation for Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple myeloma. Cancer Treat Res 1995; 50:259-78. [PMID: 1976354 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-1493-6_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Fleury J, Legros M, Cure H, Tortochaux J, Condat P, Dionet C, Travade P, Belembaogo E, Tavernier F, Kwiatkowski F. The hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in Hodgkin's disease: questions and controversies. Leuk Lymphoma 1994; 15:419-32. [PMID: 7873999 DOI: 10.3109/10428199409049745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Most patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD) are cured with chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. However, half of those with advanced stage disease (IIIB, IV) do not respond adequately to treatment or relapse. Salvage therapy used in such cases gives from 10% to 50% complete remission but only 10% long term survival. The results of bone marrow transplantation reported in acute leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma encouraged some authors to develop this new therapeutic strategy in Hodgkin's disease. In the early 1980's promising results were achieved when refractory and relapsed patients were selected to receive myeloablative therapy followed by bone marrow transplantation. Today, high dose chemotherapy with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is used more and more often in poor prognosis Hodgkin's disease. After a review of the literature concerning the results of transplantation in Hodgkin's disease, we develop the numerous problems associated with this procedure which remain to be solved such as: the optimal indication, the timing of HSCT, the type of graft, the conditioning regimen, the place of radiotherapy and the optimal use of hematopoietic growth factors. We conclude with future prospects.
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- J Fleury
- Centre Jean Perrin, Unité de Transplantation Médullaire, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Demirer T, Buckner CD, Lilleby K, Weaver C, Longin K, Appelbaum FR, Bensinger WI. Failure of a single cycle of high dose cyclophosphamide followed by intensive myeloablative therapy and autologous stem cell transplantation to improve outcome in relapsed disease. Cancer 1994; 74:715-21. [PMID: 8033053 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19940715)74:2<715::aid-cncr2820740227>3.0.co;2-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND This study attempted to determine the use of a single cycle of high dose cyclophosphamide (60 mg/kg/day x 2) with (N = 16) and without granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) (N = 12) followed by intensive treatment and autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in patients with relapsed disease. METHODS Ten patients with multiple myeloma, eight with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, three with Hodgkin's disease, six with breast cancer, and one with ovarian cancer were studied. Eighteen patients were in resistant relapse (RR) and 10 had sensitive relapses (SRs). All patients had marrow involvement with tumor and had received extensive prior therapy. RESULTS When responses were assessed just before undergoing ASCT, none of the patients achieved a complete response (CR). Overall, 17 of 28 patients (61%) achieved a partial response (PR). Seven of 18 patients with RR achieved PR (39%). All 10 patients with SR achieved a PR. There were three early deaths. Sixteen patients underwent peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collection. Ten of 16 patients received cyclophosphamide plus GM-CSF, and 6 received cyclophosphamide alone. In patients treated with cyclophosphamide plus GM-CSF and cyclophosphamide alone, a median of 5.52 x 10(6) CD34+ cells/kg (range, 0.26-30.49) and 5.72 x 10(6) (range, 1.25-15.66) were collected, respectively. There was no apparent improvement in collection efficiency with GM-CSF. Twenty-two of 28 patients proceeded to ASCT irrespective of response, a median of 45 days (range, 21-203 days) after cyclophosphamide administration. After transplantation, 11 achieved a CR (50%) and 6 a PR (27%). To date, eight patients are alive (median, 679 days; range, 215-1190 days) and five remain in CR more than 6 months (median, 321 days; range, 215-1190 days). All eight surviving patients achieved a PR after high dose cyclophosphamide. CONCLUSIONS High dose cyclophosphamide reduced the tumor burden by at least 50% in all patients with sensitive disease and in 39% of patients with refractory disease. However, only 5 of 22 patients (23%) remained in CR after ASCT, and all had sensitive disease before the administration of cyclophosphamide. These data suggest that high dose cyclophosphamide followed by intensive treatment and ABMT does not improve the fraction of long term disease free survivors in patients with refractory disease. Future trials would probably be required to demonstrate the utility of intensive treatment in patients with responsive relapse.
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- T Demirer
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle 98104
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Khwaja A, Yong K, Jones HM, Chopra R, McMillan AK, Goldstone AH, Patterson KG, Matheson C, Ruthven K, Abramson SB. The effect of macrophage colony-stimulating factor on haemopoietic recovery after autologous bone marrow transplantation. Br J Haematol 1992; 81:288-95. [PMID: 1643027 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1992.tb08222.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) is active in the late stages of monocyte maturation, activates mature monocyte-macrophages and enhances their production of various other cytokines. We have examined the effects of a 21 d course of escalating doses of M-CSF purified from human urine (hM-CSF) on recovery following autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) in 20 patients with malignant lymphomas. Four patients were treated at each dose level of 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 x 10(6) U/m2/d and results compared to 46 concurrent controls. There was no significant difference in recovery to an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) of 0.5 x 10(9)/l (median 20 d in hM-CSF group versus 22 in controls) or in recovery of platelets to 50 x 10(9)/l (32 d versus 39 d, 0.05 less than P less than 0.1); hM-CSF patients received a median of 81 platelet units following ABMT (controls 112 units, P = NS). hM-CSF patients had a median of 5.5 d with fever greater than 37.5 degrees C (control 8, P = NS), received parenteral antibiotics for 14.5 d (control 17, P = NS) and had a 50% incidence of bacteraemia (control 48%). hM-CSF treated patients were discharged by a median of day 29 following transplantation (control 33, P less than 0.05). Platelet and neutrophil recovery correlated significantly with the number of marrow mononuclear cells (MNC) reinfused in the hM-CSF group (P = 0.05 and P = 0.014 respectively) but not in controls. Subgroup analysis showed that hM-CSF patients receiving greater than 2 x 10(8) MNC/kg body weight reached an ANC of 0.5 x 10(9)/l by a median of day 16.5 (control 18.5, NS), became platelet transfusion independent by day 17 (control 29, P less than 0.05) and reached a platelet count of 50 x 10(9)/l by day 21 (control 40, P less than 0.05). No significant toxicity attributable to hM-CSF treatment was seen. These results suggest that hM-CSF accelerates platelet recovery following ABMT and that relatively large marrow innocula are required to see this effect.
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- A Khwaja
- Department of Haematology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, U.K
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Surbone A, Armitage JO, Gale RP. Autotransplants in advanced non-Hodgkin lymphoma: are they effective? Cell Transplant 1992; 1:343-7. [PMID: 1344306 DOI: 10.1177/096368979200100502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Recent data suggest that intensive therapy followed by a bone marrow autotransplant is effective in advanced intermediate and high-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma (predominantly large-cell lymphoma). Twelve studies of autotransplants were analyzed to determine outcome. Results compared to data from 29 chemotherapy studies. Complete remission was reported in 53% of autotransplant recipients versus 17% of persons receiving chemotherapy. Two-year disease-free survival was 16 and 2%, respectively. It is uncertain whether these differences indicate superiority of autotransplants or reflect selection biases. Also unknown is whether similar results might not be obtained with similarly intensive treatment without an autotransplant.
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- A Surbone
- Department of Oncology, Sante Chiara Hospital, Pisa, Italy
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Vose JM, Armitage JO, Bierman PJ, Weisenburger DD, Hutchins M, Dowling MD, Moravec DF, Sorensen S, Okerbloom J, Bascom G. Salvage therapy for relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin's lymphoma utilizing autologous bone marrow transplantation. Am J Med 1989; 87:285-8. [PMID: 2672808 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9343(89)80152-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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PURPOSE Our objective was to evaluate the impact of high-dose therapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation as salvage treatment for recurrent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in a defined group of patients from the Nebraska Lymphoma Study Group. DESIGN Patients treated initially by oncologists from the Nebraska Lymphoma Study Group between January 1983 and July 1987 who subsequently underwent autologous bone marrow transplantation for recurrent or refractory disease were evaluated for treatment outcome. PATIENTS Twenty-five patients with relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin's lymphoma underwent high-dose therapy and autologous stem cell infusion in the time period reviewed. An initial doxorubicin (Adriamycin)-containing chemotherapy regimen had failed in all patients. The most favorable subgroup included 17 patients who were less then 60 years of age and had received no chemotherapy beyond their initial doxorubicin-containing regimen when referred for bone marrow transplantation. RESULTS The complete response rate to the high-dose therapy was 52%, with an actuarial five-year disease-free survival of all patients treated of 40%. The overall survival at five years was 46%. CONCLUSIONS High-dose chemo-radiotherapy, followed by infusion of autologous hematopoietic stem cells, can effectively function as salvage therapy in a significant number of patients in whom primary chemotherapy regimens for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma fail. This treatment approach appears to offer superior results when compared with the reported outcome for patients treated with salvage chemotherapy administered at conventional doses.
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- J M Vose
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68105-1065
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Gaspard MH, Maraninchi D, Stoppa AM, Gastaut JA, Michel G, Tubiana N, Blaise D, Novakovitch G, Rossi JF, Weiller PJ. Intensive chemotherapy with high doses of BCNU, etoposide, cytosine arabinoside, and melphalan (BEAM) followed by autologous bone marrow transplantation: toxicity and antitumor activity in 26 patients with poor-risk malignancies. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 1988; 22:256-62. [PMID: 3044633 DOI: 10.1007/bf00273421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Twenty-six patients (median age 33 years) with poor-risk malignancies were treated with high-dose combination chemotherapy associating BCNU-etoposide-cytosine arabinoside and melphalan (BEAM) followed by autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT). Twenty-one patients had malignant lymphomas, three, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and two, malignant thymomas. Eleven patients (group 1) were not in complete remission (CR) at the time of BEAM, and fifteen patients (group 2) were in CR. Hematological recovery occurred in all patients. The duration of aplasia and the non-hematological toxicities were similar in both groups. Ten of the eleven patients (group 1) evaluable for response achieved CR and one achieved partial remission (PR). Five patients relapsed, and five are in continuous CR with a short follow-up (median 8 months). Among the fifteen patients in CR at the time of BEAM (group 2), four patients relapsed and ten patients are in unmaintained continuous CR with a median follow-up of 15 months (one patient died in CR). The disease-free survival is 53%, with 29% for patients receiving BEAM while in relapse (group 1) and 65% for patients receiving BEAM while in CR (group 2). These data indicate that BEAM followed by ABMT can produce a high antitumor response with an acceptable toxicity in patients with poor-risk malignancies.
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- M H Gaspard
- Marrow Transplant Unit, Inserm U119-Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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Williams SF, Schilsky RL, Ultmann JE, Samuels BL. The role of high-dose therapy and autologous bone marrow reinfusion in the treatment of malignant lymphomas. Cancer Invest 1988; 6:427-37. [PMID: 3052703 DOI: 10.3109/07357908809080072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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In a significant fraction of patients with NHL or HD, disease develops that is resistant to conventional chemotherapy. Experience using high-dose chemotherapy, with or without TBI, and ABMR is expanding. In HD, remissions can be achieved in approximately half of the patients with relapsed advanced disease. This may also be true in patients with NHL who do not respond to conventional regimens. High-dose chemoradiotherapy regimens are toxic and require extensive supportive care. Relapse frequently occurs in areas of previous disease, suggesting failure of the conditioning regimen rather that an infusion of occult tumor cells in the autologous bone marrow had occurred. Thus, the role of marrow purging in this therapy needs to be further evaluated and compared with findings involving nonpurged marrow reinfusion. It is also important to evaluate the effects of more vigorous attempts at cytoreduction of bulky disease prior to high-dose therapy and ABMR. We recommend that high-dose therapy and ABMR in an investigational setting be used (1) in patients with HD who experience relapse after MOPP/ABVD or equivalent regimens and (2) in patients with intermediate or high-grade NHL whose disease recurs or is resistant to conventional regimens. Potential areas for development include the use of this modality as intensification therapy following conventional therapy in patients with intermediate or high-grade NHL with poor prognostic features. Toxicity can be decreased and efficacy increased only if therapy is administered to patients who have not been heavily pretreated and who have lower tumor burden and a good performance status. The role of high-dose chemotherapy of ABMR in the nodular lymphomas is not known at this point. Finally, high-dose ABMR therapy has a definite role in salvaging patients with malignant lymphomas. Many issues need to be resolved, including (i) the optimal timing of this approach, (ii) the optimal conditioning regimen, and (iii) the need for purging bone marrow prior to reinfusion. The past 10 years have led to significant gains. During the next 10 years, it may be possible to refine this therapy and find solutions to the above issues.
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- S F Williams
- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois
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Gribben JG, Vaughan Hudson B, Linch DC. The potential value of very intensive therapy with autologous bone marrow rescue in the treatment of malignant lymphomas. Hematol Oncol 1987; 5:281-93. [PMID: 3319868 DOI: 10.1002/hon.2900050406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) following intensive therapy regimes is being used increasingly in relapsed lymphomas. To date no randomised studies have been performed to ascertain the value of this form of therapy. We describe here our experience of ABMT in both Hodgkin's disease and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and review the situations in which we believe future randomised studies should be based.
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- J G Gribben
- Department of Haematology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, U.K
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The therapeutic outcome in patients with advanced Hodgkin's disease has improved considerably since the advent of MOPP chemotherapy (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone) and MOPP-like regimens. Still, failure will eventually occur in approximately 50 percent of these patients. The optimal approach to treating these patients is not well established. Currently, the six major salvage approaches available are: (1) chemotherapy reinduction with the same initial regimen: (2) chemotherapy with ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine); (3) non-ABVD second-line regimens; (4) third-line chemotherapy regimens; (5) wide-field radiation therapy alone or combined with second-line chemotherapy; and (6) autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. This review provides a critical evaluation of the curative potential of each therapeutic modality and outlines recommendations for the best current therapeutic approach and for future clinical study.
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- A C Buzaid
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson
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Philip T, Armitage JO, Spitzer G, Chauvin F, Jagannath S, Cahn JY, Colombat P, Goldstone AH, Gorin NC, Flesh M. High-dose therapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation after failure of conventional chemotherapy in adults with intermediate-grade or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. N Engl J Med 1987; 316:1493-8. [PMID: 3295541 DOI: 10.1056/nejm198706113162401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 502] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
Adult patients with advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in whom conventional chemotherapy has failed are seldom cured thereafter. We studied 100 such patients with intermediate-grade or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who were subsequently treated with high-dose chemotherapy (61 patients) or high-dose chemotherapy plus total-body irradiation (39 patients), with bone marrow transplantation used for hematologic support. Thirty-four patients had disease that had been refractory to primary chemotherapy, and 66 patients had had a complete remission with primary chemotherapy but later relapsed. Before autologous bone marrow transplantation and high-dose chemotherapy, the 66 relapsed patients had also received conventional salvage chemotherapy; 22 had had no response or had had disease progression (a response termed "resistant relapse"), and 44 patients had responded partially or completely (a response termed "sensitive relapse"). After high-dose therapy and bone marrow transplantation, the actuarial three-year disease-free survival was zero in the refractory group, 14 percent in the resistant-relapse group, and 36 percent in the sensitive-relapse group. Patients who had had a complete remission in response to initial chemotherapy had a higher disease-free survival rate than those who had not (P less than 0.001), and patients with sensitive relapse had a higher disease-free survival rate than those with resistant relapse (P less than 0.003). These results should be considered in the planning or interpretation of trials of salvage chemotherapy in adults with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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