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Hamad L, Ahmed SM, van Eerden E, van Walraven SM, Machin L. Remuneration of donors for cell and gene therapies: an update on the principles and perspective of the World Marrow Donor Association. Bone Marrow Transplant 2024; 59:580-586. [PMID: 38396211 DOI: 10.1038/s41409-024-02246-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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The cell and gene therapy (CGT) sector has witnessed significant advancement over the past decade, the inception of advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) being one of the most transformational. ATMPs treat serious medical conditions, in some cases providing curative therapy for seriously ill patients. There is interest in pivoting the ATMP development from autologous based treatments to allogenic, to offer faster and greater patient access that should ultimately reduce treatment costs. Consequently, starting material from allogenic donors is required, igniting ethical issues associated with financial gains and donor remuneration within CGT. The World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) established the Cellular Therapy Committee to identify the role WMDA can play in safeguarding donors and patients in the CGT field. Here we review key ethical principles in relation to donating cellular material for the CGT field. We present the updated statement from WMDA on donor remuneration, which supports non-remuneration as the best way to ensure the safety and well-being of donors and patients alike. This is in line with the fundamental objective of the WMDA to maintain the health and safety of volunteer donors while ensuring high-quality stem cell products are available for all patients. We acknowledge that the CGT field is evolving at a rapid pace and there will be a need to review this position as new practices and applications come to pass.
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- Lina Hamad
- Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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Holbro A, Baldomero H, Lanza F, Chabannon C, Snowden JA, Buser A, Infanti L, Worel N, Sureda A, Badoglio M, Passweg J, Bonini C. Handling, processing and disposal of stem cell products in Europe: A survey by the cellular therapy and immunobiology working party of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Cytotherapy 2018; 20:453-460. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2017.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Revised: 11/03/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Riezzo I, Pascale N, La Russa R, Liso A, Salerno M, Turillazzi E. Donor Selection for Allogenic Hemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Clinical and Ethical Considerations. Stem Cells Int 2017; 2017:5250790. [PMID: 28680446 PMCID: PMC5478865 DOI: 10.1155/2017/5250790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 05/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Allogenic hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is an established treatment for many diseases. Stem cells may be obtained from different sources: mobilized peripheral blood stem cells, bone marrow, and umbilical cord blood. The progress in transplantation procedures, the establishment of experienced transplant centres, and the creation of unrelated adult donor registries and cord blood banks gave those without an human leucocyte antigen- (HLA-) identical sibling donor the opportunity to find a donor and cord blood units worldwide. HSCT imposes operative cautions so that the entire donation/transplantation procedure is safe for both donors and recipients; it carries with it significant clinical, moral, and ethical concerns, mostly when donors are minors. The following points have been stressed: the donation should be excluded when excessive risks for the donor are reasonable, donors must receive an accurate information regarding eventual adverse events and health burden for the donors themselves, a valid consent is required, and the recipient's risks must be outweighed by the expected benefits. The issue of conflict of interest, when the same physician has the responsibility for both donor selection and recipient care, is highlighted as well as the need of an adequate insurance protection for all the parties involved.
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- Irene Riezzo
- Institute of Legal Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Ospedale “Colonnello D'Avanzo”, Viale Degli Aviatori, 1, 71122 Foggia, Italy
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Ospedale “Colonnello D'Avanzo”, Viale Degli Aviatori, 1, 71122 Foggia, Italy
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- Istituto Clinico-Scientifico Malzoni, 83100 Avellino, Italy
- Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena 336, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Hematology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Viale Pinto 1, 71122 Foggia, Italy
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Ospedale “Colonnello D'Avanzo”, Viale Degli Aviatori, 1, 71122 Foggia, Italy
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Ospedale “Colonnello D'Avanzo”, Viale Degli Aviatori, 1, 71122 Foggia, Italy
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Remuneration of hematopoietic stem cell donors: principles and perspective of the World Marrow Donor Association. Blood 2011; 117:21-5. [DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-07-298430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a curative procedure for life-threatening hematologic diseases. Donation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) from an unrelated donor, frequently residing in another country, may be the only option for 70% of those in need of unrelated hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. To maximize the opportunity to find the best available donor, individual donor registries collaborate internationally. To provide homogeneity of practice among registries, the World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) sets standards against which registries are accredited and provides guidance and regulations about unrelated donor safety and care. A basic tenet of the donor registries is that unrelated HSC donation is an altruistic act; nonpayment of donors is entrenched in the WMDA standards and in international practice. In the United States, the prohibition against remuneration of donors has recently been challenged. Here, we describe the reasons that the WMDA continues to believe that HSC donors should not be paid because of ethical concerns raised by remuneration, potential to damage the public will to act altruistically, the potential for coercion and exploitation of donors, increased risk to patients, harm to local transplantation programs and international stem cell exchange, and the possibility of benefiting some patients while disadvantaging others.
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King RJ, Confer DL, Greinix HT, Halter J, Horowitz M, Schmidt AH, Costeas P, Shaw B, Egeland T. Unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donors as research subjects. Bone Marrow Transplant 2010; 46:10-3. [PMID: 20190845 DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2010.37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Requests for participation of unrelated stem cell donors in research transplant protocols are becoming more frequent. World Marrow Donor Association calls on donor registries to participate in research activities. Here, we discuss various implications of research participation and make some recommendations as how to make this possible.
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- R J King
- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Donor safety: the role of the WMDA in ensuring the safety of volunteer unrelated donors: clinical and ethical considerations. Bone Marrow Transplant 2010; 45:832-8. [DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2010.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Bochtler W, Maiers M, Oudshoorn M, Marsh SGE, Raffoux C, Mueller C, Hurley CK. World Marrow Donor Association guidelines for use of HLA nomenclature and its validation in the data exchange among hematopoietic stem cell donor registries and cord blood banks. Bone Marrow Transplant 2007; 39:737-41. [PMID: 17438587 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Since the advent of the European Marrow Donor Information System in the first half of the last decade, fully automated data exchange between registry computer systems has been playing an ever-increasing role in the international search for unrelated donors of blood progenitor cells. This exchange, however, was hampered by different local conventions used to present HLA data and complicated by the need to extend the official WHO nomenclature to accommodate the registries' information systems and to cross-validate HLA data obtained with different methods and/or at different loci. The guidelines presented here have been developed by the World Marrow Donor Association to standardize the nomenclature to be used and the validation checks to be applied in the international electronic exchange of HLA-typing data among unrelated volunteer hematopoietic stem cell donor registries and umbilical cord blood banks. Two reference web sites have been designated to maintain and update the approved HLA nomenclature and all the ancillary information needed by the conventions described here.
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- W Bochtler
- Information Technology and Quality Assurance Working Groups of the World Marrow Donor Association, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Au WY, Lie AKW, Cheng JW, Liang R, Kwong YL. Long-term donor health and its relationship with outcome of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 2006; 37:451-3. [PMID: 16415890 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705274] [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: 11/08/2022]
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Data on long-term follow-up of donors for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are limited. Donors of 612 adult allogeneic HSCT were studied, at a median of 81 (14-181) months post-HSC donation. Nine donors had severe health problems. Five donors died from aggressive malignancies or terminal illness, at a median of 41 (16-57) months post-donation. Notably, all their recipients had leukemic relapses. In contrast, donors of recipients in remission were all living. This observation might be due to an inherent depressed immunosurveillance in the donors, or selection of donors with suboptimal health for desperate patients with poor risks pre-HSCT.
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- W-Y Au
- Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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The article discusses views and recommendations of the World Marrow Donor Association concerning ethical issues related to the donation of hematopoietic stem cell products with respect to recruitment, evaluation, workup, and follow-up of unrelated donors. Particular emphasis is placed upon commitment of individual donors, in particular, with respect to the needs of patients to find HLA-matched donors, who may be asked to donate stem cell and other cell products more than once for given patients.
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- R Bakken
- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Gahrton G, van Rood JJ, Oudshoorn M. The World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA): its goals and activities. Bone Marrow Transplant 2003; 32:121-4. [PMID: 12838274 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The major goal of the World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) is to facilitate the transfer of hematopoietic cells for transplantation purposes across international borders. It also has the goal of establishing guidelines on ethical, technical, medical, and financial aspects that concern the donor and donor-cell transfer. It has a Board and five Working Groups, namely the Donor Registry Working Group, the Quality Assurance Group, the Ethic Working Group, the Finance Working Group, and the Clinical Working Group. It has three types of membership, that is, full organizational membership, nonvoting organizational membership, and individual corresponding membership. Current important projects are speeding up the search process, accreditation of registries and collecting information about severe adverse effects in donors.
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- G Gahrton
- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, SE-14186 Stockholm, Sweden
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