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Stefanski HE, Kuxhausen M, Bo-Subait S, Kobusingye H, Mattila D, Schenfeld J, Sandschafer D, Burns LJ, Shaw BE, Pulsipher MA, Miller JP, Devine SM. Long-term Outcomes of Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Unrelated Donors Mobilized with Filgrastim. Blood Adv 2024:bloodadvances.2024012646. [PMID: 38687368 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2024012646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2024] [Revised: 04/05/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024] Open
Abstract
Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation is a life-saving procedure used to treat of a variety of devastating diseases. It requires hematopoietic stem cells collected via filgrastim mobilized peripheral blood stem cells or bone marrow harvest from volunteer unrelated donors. There is a paucity of safety data regarding donors' long-term adverse events. This prospective, observational study combined peripheral blood stem cell donors enrolled on the NMDP Investigational New Drug trial and bone marrow donors between July 1, 1999, and September 30, 2015. The primary objective was to describe the long-term incidence of myeloid malignancies. Secondary objectives included describing the long-term incidence of lymphoid malignancies, non-hematologic malignancies, autoimmune disorders, and thrombotic events. 21643 donors (14530 peripheral blood stem cells and 7123 bone marrow) were included. The incidence rate of myeloid disorders per 100000 person years in donors of peripheral blood stem cells was 2.53 (95% CI: 0.82-7.84) and in donors of bone marrow it was 4.13 (95% CI: 1.33-12.8). The incidence rate ratio of peripheral blood stem cells /bone marrow donors was 0.61 (95% CI: 0.12-3.03; p=0.55). The incidence of other malignancies, autoimmunity, and thrombosis did not differ between donor types. This comprehensive study of long-term effects of filgrastim in unrelated donors of peripheral blood stem cells provides strong evidence that donors who receive filgrastim are not at increased risk of these events compared to bone marrow donors. It also provides reassurance to current donors undergoing stem cell mobilization as well as individuals considering joining stem cell registries such as NMDP.
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- Heather E Stefanski
- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), NMDP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, Minneapolis, MN, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- CIBMTR, National Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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- CIBMTR, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute/Intermountain Primary Chlldren's Hospital, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, University of Utah., Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Magenau J, Jaglowski S, Uberti J, Farag SS, Riwes MM, Pawarode A, Anand S, Ghosh M, Maciejewski J, Braun T, Devenport M, Lu S, Banerjee B, DaSilva C, Devine S, Zhang MJ, Burns LJ, Liu Y, Zheng P, Reddy P. A phase 2 trial of CD24Fc for prevention of graft-versus-host disease. Blood 2024; 143:21-31. [PMID: 37647633 PMCID: PMC10934299 DOI: 10.1182/blood.2023020250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Revised: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/01/2023] Open
Abstract
ABSTRACT Patients who undergo human leukocyte antigen-matched unrelated donor (MUD) allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) with myeloablative conditioning for hematologic malignancies often develop acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) despite standard calcineurin inhibitor-based prophylaxis in combination with methotrexate. This trial evaluated a novel human CD24 fusion protein (CD24Fc/MK-7110) that selectively targets and mitigates inflammation due to damage-associated molecular patterns underlying acute GVHD while preserving protective immunity after myeloablative conditioning. This phase 2a, multicenter study evaluated the pharmacokinetics, safety, and efficacy of CD24Fc in combination with tacrolimus and methotrexate in preventing acute GVHD in adults undergoing MUD HSCT for hematologic malignancies. A double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation phase to identify a recommended dose was followed by an open-label expansion phase with matched controls to further evaluate the efficacy and safety of CD24Fc in preventing acute GVHD. A multidose regimen of CD24Fc produced sustained drug exposure with similar safety outcomes when compared with single-dose regimens. Grade 3 to 4 acute GVHD-free survival at day 180 was 96.2% (95% confidence interval [CI], 75.7-99.4) in the CD24Fc expansion cohort (CD24Fc multidose), compared with 73.6% (95% CI, 63.2-81.4) in matched controls (hazard ratio, 0.1 [95% CI, 0.0-0.6]; log-rank test, P = .03). No participants in the CD24Fc escalation or expansion phases experienced dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs). The multidose regimen of CD24Fc was well tolerated with no DLTs and was associated with high rates of severe acute GVHD-free survival after myeloablative MUD HSCT. This trial was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov as #NCT02663622.
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- John Magenau
- Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Karmanos Cancer Center, Hudson-Webber Cancer Research Center, Detroit, MI
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- Blood and Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplant and Immune Cell Therapy Program, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
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- Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI
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- OncoImmune, Inc, Rockville, MD
- Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- OncoImmune, Inc, Rockville, MD
- Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Program, Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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Dhakal B, Zhang MJ, Burns LJ, Tang X, Meyer C, Mau LW, Nooka AK, Stadtmauer E, Micallef IN, McGuirk J, Costa L, Juckett MB, Shah N, Champlin RE, Usmani SZ, Farag SS, Nishihori T, Roy V, Bodiford A, Barnes YJ, Drea EJ, Hari P, Hamadani M. Efficacy, safety, and cost of mobilization strategies in multiple myeloma: a prospective, observational study. Haematologica 2023; 108:2249-2254. [PMID: 36601982 PMCID: PMC10388259 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2022.282269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2022] [Accepted: 12/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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- Binod Dhakal
- BMT and Cellular Therapy Program, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, The University of Kansas Cancer Center, Kansas City
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology; University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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- Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy (BMT CI), Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
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- Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
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- US Medical Affairs - Transplantation, Sanofi, Bridgewater, NJ
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- US Medical Affairs - Hematology Oncology, Sanofi Specialty Care, Cambridge, MA
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- US Medical - Oncology Medical Value and Outcomes, Sanofi Specialty Care, Cambridge, MA
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- BMT and Cellular Therapy Program, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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Juckett M, Dandoy C, DeFilipp Z, Kindwall-Keller TL, Spellman SR, Ustun C, Waldman BM, Weisdorf DJ, Wood WA, Horowitz MM, Burns LJ, Khera N. How do we improve the translation of new evidence into the practice of hematopoietic cell transplantation and cellular therapy? Blood Rev 2023; 60:101079. [PMID: 37087394 PMCID: PMC10330269 DOI: 10.1016/j.blre.2023.101079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Revised: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/24/2023]
Abstract
The field of hematopoietic cell transplantation and cell therapy (HCT/CT) is advancing rapidly to bring an ever-expanding collection of potentially curative therapies to patients with malignant and non-malignant diseases. The impact of these therapies depends on our ability to implement them as new evidence becomes available to advance the quality of care. There is often a long delay between evidence development and adoption of therapies based on that evidence into clinical practice. In this review, we describe the potential factors based on an implementation framework that could act as facilitators or barriers to adoption of therapies in the context of HCT/CT. We highlight two examples, the first to showcase the efforts to improve the efficiency of adoption of new findings and accelerate improvement in care of HCT/CT patients and the second to discuss the challenges in real world implementation of chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy. We conclude by reviewing strategies to improve translation of evidence and ways to measure their success.
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- Mark Juckett
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Milwaukee, WI, United States of America
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- Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant, Milwaukee, WI, United States of America
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Milwaukee, WI, United States of America; Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States of America
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Milwaukee, WI, United States of America
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- College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America.
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Shaw BE, Jimenez-Jimenez AM, Burns LJ, Logan BR, Khimani F, Shaffer BC, Shah NN, Mussetter A, Tang XY, McCarty JM, Alavi A, Farhadfar N, Jamieson K, Hardy NM, Choe H, Ambinder RF, Anasetti C, Perales MA, Spellman SR, Howard A, Komanduri KV, Luznik L, Norkin M, Pidala JA, Ratanatharathorn V, Confer DL, Devine SM, Horowitz MM, Bolaños-Meade J. Three-Year Outcomes in Recipients of Mismatched Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Transplants Using Post-Transplantation Cyclophosphamide: Follow-Up from a National Marrow Donor Program-Sponsored Prospective Clinical Trial. Transplant Cell Ther 2023; 29:208.e1-208.e6. [PMID: 36584941 PMCID: PMC9992261 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2022.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2022] [Revised: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
The use of post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy) as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis has resulted in reductions in GVHD and improved outcomes in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) using HLA-mismatched related donors. We report the 3-year outcomes of the first multicenter prospective clinical trial using PTCy in the setting of mismatched unrelated donor (MMUD) bone marrow HCT. The study enrolled 80 patients, treated with either myeloablative conditioning (MAC; n = 40) or reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC; n = 40), with the primary endpoint of 1-year overall survival (OS). The median follow-up for this study was 34 months (range, 12 to 46 months) in the RIC group and 36 months (range, 18 to 49 months) in the MAC group. Three-year OS and nonrelapse mortality were 70% and 15%, respectively, in the RIC group and 62% and 10% in the MAC group. No GVHD was reported after 1 year. The incidence of relapse was 29% in the RIC group and 51% in the MAC group. OS did not differ based on HLA match grade (63% in the 7/8 strata and 71% in the 4 to 6/8 strata). These encouraging outcomes, which were sustained for 3 years post-HCT, support the continued exploration of MMUD HCT using a PTCy platform. Important future areas to address include relapse reduction and furthering our understanding of optimal donor selection based on HLA and non-HLA factors.
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- Bronwen E Shaw
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Cellular Immunotherapies and Transplant Program, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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- Department of Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- University of North Carolina Hospitals-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
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- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, UCSF Health and Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, California
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- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jacksonville, Florida
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- Department of Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
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Phelan R, Chen M, Bupp C, Bolon YT, Broglie L, Brunner-Grady J, Burns LJ, Chhabra S, Christianson D, Cusatis R, Devine SM, D’Souza A, Eapen M, Hamadani M, Hengen M, Lee SJ, Moskop A, Page KM, Pasquini M, Pérez WS, Riches M, Rizzo D, Saber W, Spellman SR, Stefanski HE, Steinert P, Weisdorf D, Horowitz M, Auletta JJ, Shaw BE, Arora M. Updated Trends in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in the United States with an Additional Focus on Adolescent and Young Adult Transplantation Activity and Outcomes. Transplant Cell Ther 2022; 28:409.e1-409.e10. [PMID: 35447374 PMCID: PMC9840526 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2022.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Revised: 03/30/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
Abstract
Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) has been successfully used to treat many malignant and nonmalignant conditions. As supportive care, donor selection, and treatment modalities evolve, documenting HCT trends and outcomes is critical. This report from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) provides an update on current transplantation activity and survival rates in the United States. Additional data on the use and outcomes of HCT in the adolescent and young adult (AYA) population are included. AYA patients more frequently receive peripheral blood stem cell grafts than pediatric patients, which may reflect differences in practice in pediatric versus adult treatment centers. The proportions of donor types also differ those in adult and pediatric populations. Outcomes for patients in the AYA age range are similar to those of pediatric patients for acute myelogenous leukemia but worse for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Outcomes for both leukemias are better in AYA patients compared with older adults. Comparing the time periods 2000 to 2009 and 2010 to 2019 revealed significant improvement in overall survival across the age spectrum, but the greatest improvement in the AYA age group.
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- Rachel Phelan
- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Blood and Marrow Transplant, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Blood and Marrow Transplant, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,BMT & Cellular Therapy Program, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,BMT & Cellular Therapy Program, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI,Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Blood and Marrow Transplant, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, Minneapolis, MN,Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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Ustun C, Warlick E, Nathan S, Burns LJ, Weisdorf D. Transplantation provides superior survival high risk myeloid malignancies in older patients. Leuk Lymphoma 2022; 63:2494-2498. [DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2022.2076851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Celalettin Ustun
- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Cellular Therapy, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Cellular Therapy, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Hamilton BK, Cutler C, Divine C, Juckett M, LeMaistre C, Stewart S, Wilder J, Horowitz M, Khera N, Burns LJ. Are We Making PROGRESS in Preventing Graft-versus-Host Disease and Improving Clinical Outcomes? Impact of BMT CTN 1301 Study Results on Clinical Practice. Transplant Cell Ther 2022; 28:419-425. [PMID: 35550441 PMCID: PMC9364468 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2022.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Revised: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 05/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
The need for prospective randomized clinical trials investigating novel graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prevention strategies that include other clinical outcomes impacted by GVHD has been highlighted as a priority for the field of hematopoietic cell transplantation. A recently completed study through the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN 1301) comparing CD34+ selection and post-transplantation cyclophosphamide with tacrolimus/methotrexate (Tac/MTX) for GVHD prevention demonstrated no significant differences in the primary endpoint of chronic GVHD relapse-free survival among the 3 approaches. The trial did not demonstrate a superior approach compared with Tac/MTX; however, it did highlight several challenges in determining the best and most relevant approaches to clinical trial design, particularly in the context of current and ongoing changes in real-world practices. Here we review the results of BMT CTN 1301 and their implications for clinical practice and future clinical trial design.
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- Betty K Hamilton
- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
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- Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapeutics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Blood and Marrow Transplant Information Network, Highland Park, Illinois
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- Clinical Monitoring Research Program Directorate, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Cusatis R, Flynn KE, Vasu S, Pidala J, Muffly L, Uberti J, Tamari R, Mattila D, Mussetter A, Bruzauskas R, Chen M, Leckrone E, Myers J, Mau LW, Rizzo JD, Saber W, Horowitz M, Lee SJ, Burns LJ, Shaw B. Adding Centralized Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Data Collection to an Established International Clinical Outcomes Registry. Transplant Cell Ther 2022; 28:112.e1-112.e9. [PMID: 34757219 PMCID: PMC8915447 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2021.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Revised: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Abstract
The importance of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in cellular therapies, including hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is highlighted in this study. Longitudinal collection of PROs in a registry is recommended for several reasons, yet to date, PROs are not routinely collected from HCT patients to augment clinical registry data. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of electronic PRO data collection by a national clinical outcomes registry, by assessing differences between who does and does not report PROs. We conducted a cross-sectional pilot collection of PROs from HCT recipients after treatment using computer-adapted tests from the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS). We implemented centralized data collection through the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) among patients who underwent HCT for myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), were at least 6 months post-HCT, and spoke English or Spanish. The main objective was identifying patient, disease, and transplant-related differences associated with completion of electronic PROs. Patients were excluded from analysis if they were determined to be ineligible (deceased, did not speak English or Spanish, refused to be contacted by the CIBMTR). A total of 163 patients were contacted and potentially eligible to participate; of these, 92 (56%) enrolled and 89 (55%) completed the PRO assessment. The most frequent reason for incomplete surveys was inability to contact patients (n = 88), followed by declining to participate in the study (n = 37). There were no sociodemographic or age differences between those who completed the PRO survey (n = 89) and eligible nonresponders (n = 155). Patient scores were within 3 points of the US average of 50 for all symptoms and functioning except physical functioning. Responders and nonresponders did not exhibit meaningfully different sociodemographic characteristics. Difficulty contacting patients posed the greatest barrier and also provided the greatest opportunity for improvement. Once enrolled, survey completion was high. These results support standardizing centralized PRO data collection through the CIBMTR registry.
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- Rachel Cusatis
- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI
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- CIBMTR® (Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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Warlick ED, Ustun C, Andreescu A, Bonagura AF, Brunner A, Chandra AB, Foran JM, Juckett MB, Kindwall-Keller TL, Klimek VM, Pease DF, Steensma DP, Waldman BM, Horowitz MM, Burns LJ, Khera N. Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network Study 1102 heralds a new era in hematopoietic cell transplantation in high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes: Challenges and opportunities in implementation. Cancer 2021; 127:4339-4347. [PMID: 34375439 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.33826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Revised: 06/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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LAY SUMMARY People who have advanced myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) may live longer if they get a bone marrow transplant (BMT) instead of other therapies. However, only 15% of people with MDS actually get BMT. Experts say community physicians and transplant physicians should team up with insurance companies and patient advocacy groups to 1) spread this news about lifesaving advances in BMT, 2) ensure that everyone can afford health care, 3) provide emotional support for patients and families, 4) help patients and families get transportation and housing if they need to travel for transplant, and 5) improve care for people of under-represented racial and ethnic backgrounds.
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- Erica D Warlick
- Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, Lafayette Family Cancer Institute, Bangor, Maine
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- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
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- School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.,Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Shaw BE, Jimenez-Jimenez AM, Burns LJ, Logan BR, Khimani F, Shaffer BC, Shah NN, Mussetter A, Tang XY, McCarty JM, Alavi A, Farhadfar N, Jamieson K, Hardy NM, Choe H, Ambinder RF, Anasetti C, Perales MA, Spellman SR, Howard A, Komanduri KV, Luznik L, Norkin M, Pidala JA, Ratanatharathorn V, Confer DL, Devine SM, Horowitz MM, Bolaños-Meade J. National Marrow Donor Program-Sponsored Multicenter, Phase II Trial of HLA-Mismatched Unrelated Donor Bone Marrow Transplantation Using Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide. J Clin Oncol 2021; 39:1971-1982. [PMID: 33905264 PMCID: PMC8260905 DOI: 10.1200/jco.20.03502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Revised: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is curative for hematologic disorders, but outcomes are historically inferior when using HLA-mismatched donors. Despite unrelated donor registries listing > 38 million volunteers, 25%-80% of US patients lack an HLA-matched unrelated donor, with significant disparity across ethnic groups. We hypothesized that HCT with a mismatched unrelated donor (MMUD) using post-transplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy), a novel strategy successful in overcoming genetic disparity using mismatched related donors, would be feasible and increase access to HCT. PATIENTS AND METHODS We performed a prospective phase II study of MMUD bone marrow HCT with PTCy for patients with hematologic malignancies. The primary end point was 1-year overall survival (OS), hypothesized to be 65% or better. 80 patients enrolled at 11 US transplant centers (December 2016-March 2019). Following myeloablative or reduced-intensity conditioning-based HCT, patients received PTCy on days +3, +4, with sirolimus and mycophenolate mofetil starting on day +5. We compared outcomes to Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research contemporary controls receiving PTCy. RESULTS Notably, 48% of patients enrolled were ethnic minorities. 39% of pairs were matched for 4-6 out of 8 HLA alleles. The primary end point was met, with 1-year OS of 76% (90% CI, 67.3 to 83.3) in the entire cohort, and 72% and 79% in the myeloablative and reduced-intensity conditioning strata, respectively. Secondary end points related to engraftment and graft-versus-host-disease were reached. Multivariate analysis comparing the study group with other mismatched HCT controls found no significant differences in OS. CONCLUSION Our prospective study demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of HCT with an MMUD in the setting of PTCy. Remarkably, nearly half of the study participants belonged to an ethnic minority population, suggesting this approach may significantly expand access to HCT.
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- Bronwen E. Shaw
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research/Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research/Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research/Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL
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- Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research/National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research/Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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- Massey Cancer Center Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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- Department of Oncology, Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Program, Karmanos Cancer Institute/Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
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- Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
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- James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
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- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
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- Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research/National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research/National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN
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- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
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- LifeSouth Community Blood Centers, Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL
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- Department of Oncology, Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Program, Karmanos Cancer Institute/Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research/National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research/National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research/Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
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Kelly DL, Syrjala K, Taylor M, Rentscher KE, Hashmi S, Wood WA, Jim H, Barata A, Flynn KE, Burns LJ, Shaw BE, Petersdorf E, Yero AC, Emmrich AD, Morris KE, Costanzo ES, Knight JM. Biobehavioral Research and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Expert Review from the Biobehavioral Research Special Interest Group of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. Transplant Cell Ther 2021; 27:747-757. [PMID: 34139388 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2021.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Revised: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) is a potentially curative treatment for many hematologic conditions. Despite advances in conditioning and supportive measures, however, there remain significant comorbidities that threaten survivorship. Adverse effects of stress-related biobehavioral processes-defined here as the interactions of behavioral, psychological, and socioenvironmental factors with biology-impact immune recovery and function and are particularly salient in the HCT context, given the importance of immune reconstitution for improved survivorship. However, biobehavioral processes have been underinvestigated in this vulnerable group compared with other cancer populations. Here the Biobehavioral Research Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy provides an expert review to inform research directions explicating the biological correlates of behavioral symptoms and evaluate the impact of these on HCT outcomes. The goal of this expert review is to provide a foundation for advancing science that effectively integrates behavioral and biological processes to optimize quality of life and improve clinical outcomes for HCT recipients.
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- Debra Lynch Kelly
- Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science, College of Nursing, University of Florida and University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Biobehavioral Sciences Department, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Hematology and Onclolgy; Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City/Mayo Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation Research, Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Psychiatry and Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Sharma A, Badawy SM, Suelzer EM, Murthy HS, Prasad P, Eissa H, Carpenter PA, Hamadani M, Labopin M, Schoemans H, Tichelli A, Phelan R, Hamilton BK, Buchbinder D, Im A, Hunter R, Brazauskas R, Burns LJ. Systematic Reviews in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy: Considerations and Guidance from the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research Late Effects and Quality of Life Working Committee. Transplant Cell Ther 2021; 27:380-388. [PMID: 33965174 PMCID: PMC8415092 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2020.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Systematic reviews apply rigorous methodologies to address a prespecified, clearly formulated clinical research question. The conclusion that results is often cited to more robustly inform decision making by clinicians, third-party payers, and managed care organizations about the clinical question of interest. Although systematic reviews provide a rigorous standard, they may be infeasible when the task is to create general disease-focused guidelines comprising multiple clinical practice questions versus a single major clinical practice question. Collaborating transplantation and cellular therapy society committees also recognize that the quantity and or quality of reference sources may be insufficient for a meaningful systematic review. As the conduct of systematic reviews has evolved over time in terms of grading systems, reporting requirements, and use of technology, here we provide current guidance on methodologies, resources for reviewers, and approaches to overcome challenges in conducting systematic reviews in transplantation and cellular therapy.
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- Akshay Sharma
- Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Division of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center/Children's Hospital of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- BMT and Cellular Therapy Program, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- EBMT Paris Study Office, Department of Haematology, Saint Antoine Hospital; INSERM UMR 938, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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- Department of Hematology, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Division of Hematology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, and BMT, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, California
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- UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Hematology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado
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- Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Sharma A, Badawy SM, Suelzer EM, Murthy HS, Prasad P, Eissa H, Carpenter PA, Hamadani M, Labopin M, Schoemans H, Tichelli A, Phelan R, Hamilton BK, Buchbinder D, Im A, Hunter R, Brazauskas R, Burns LJ. Systematic reviews in hematopoietic cell transplantation and cellular therapy: considerations and guidance from the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, and the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research late effects and quality of life working committee. Bone Marrow Transplant 2021; 56:786-797. [PMID: 33514917 PMCID: PMC8168056 DOI: 10.1038/s41409-020-01199-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Revised: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
Abstract
Systematic reviews apply rigorous methodologies to address a pre-specified, clearly formulated clinical research question. The conclusion that results is often cited to more robustly inform decision-making by clinicians, third-party payers and managed care organizations about the clinical question of interest. While systematic reviews provide a rigorous standard, they may be unfeasible when the task is to create general disease-focused guidelines comprised of multiple clinical practice questions versus a single major clinical practice question. Collaborating transplantation and cellular therapy societal committees also recognize that the quantity and or quality of reference sources may be insufficient for a meaningful systematic review. As the conduct of systematic reviews has evolved over time in terms of grading systems, reporting requirements and use of technology, here we provide current guidance in methodologies, resources for reviewers, and approaches to overcome challenges in conducting systematic reviews in transplantation and cellular therapy.
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- Akshay Sharma
- Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Division of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center / Children's Hospital of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, BMT and Cellular Therapy Program, Medical College of Wisconsin and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- EBMT Paris study office; Department of Haematology, Saint Antoine Hospital; INSERM UMR 938, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
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- Department of Hematology, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Division of Hematology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology and Oncology, and BMT, Medical College of Wisconsin and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Division of Hematology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
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Burns LJ, Flanagan KE, Pathoulas JT, Ellison A, Mesinkovska N, Senna MM. Patient perspectives of the cumulative life course impairment of alopecia areata. Clin Exp Dermatol 2021; 46:935-936. [PMID: 33548059 DOI: 10.1111/ced.14597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Revised: 01/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- L J Burns
- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- National Alopecia Areata Foundation, San Rafael, CA, USA
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- National Alopecia Areata Foundation, San Rafael, CA, USA.,Department of Dermatology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Burns LJ, Flanagan KE, Pathoulas JT, Ellison A, Mesinkovska N, Senna MM. Alopecia universalis: a patient's perspective of the cumulative life course impairment. Clin Exp Dermatol 2021; 46:1353-1354. [PMID: 33740296 DOI: 10.1111/ced.14596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- L J Burns
- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- National Alopecia Areata Foundation, San Rafael, CA, USA
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- National Alopecia Areata Foundation, San Rafael, CA, USA.,Department of Dermatology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Dehn J, Chitphakdithai P, Shaw BE, McDonald AA, Devine SM, Burns LJ, Spellman S. Likelihood of Proceeding to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in the United States after Search Activation in the National Registry: Impact of Patient Age, Disease, and Search Prognosis. Transplant Cell Ther 2020; 27:184.e1-184.e13. [PMID: 33045385 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2020.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2020] [Revised: 09/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) operates the Be The Match Registry to serve patients who require an allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (alloHCT). The factors that result in progression of an active donor search (ie, request for tissue typing or stem cell donation) to alloHCT are poorly understood. Some factors, such as differences in access by ethnic group, are known; however, deeper understanding of other patient and search factors is needed. Our study sought to identify the likelihood of patient progression from initiation of an active search for an unrelated adult donor/umbilical cord blood to transplant and to evaluate factors associated with proceeding to transplantation within 6 months. A retrospective cohort of US donor searches (ie, transplant center's first request of donor/cord blood unit testing; N = 8816) of the Be The Match Registry from January to December 2016 was analyzed. An adult unrelated donor search prognosis score, which categorizes the prognosis of the donor search as good, fair, or poor based on the patient HLA type and race/ethnic group, was included. At 6 months, 3744 (42%) patients had received a transplant. White patients were more likely to receive a transplant (n = 2590 of 5687, 45%) compared to black/African American patients (n = 187 of 700, 27%; P < .001). In multivariate analysis, the adult unrelated donor search prognosis score was associated with proceeding to adult donor or cord blood transplant within 6 months across all patient populations. A poor search prognosis score had an odds ratio (OR) of 0.32 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.26 to 0.39, P < .001), 0.22 (95% CI, 0.09 to 0.54, P = .001), 0.39 (95% CI, 0.23 to 0.65, P < .001), and 0.26 (95% CI, 0.14 to 0.45, P < .001) for adults with malignant disease, adults with nonmalignant disease, children with malignant disease, and children with nonmalignant disease, respectively. This study identified important factors in the likelihood of a patient proceeding to HCT and suggests areas for future intervention to reduce the barriers to transplant.
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- Jason Dehn
- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Farhadfar N, Burns LJ, Mupfudze T, Shaw BE, Bollard CM, Devine SM, Horowitz MM, Jones RJ, Murthy HS, Wingard JR, Lee SJ. Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Practice Predictions for the Year 2023. Transplant Cell Ther 2020; 27:183.e1-183.e7. [PMID: 33045387 PMCID: PMC7546661 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2020.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2020] [Revised: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 10/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
Abstract
Research priorities are best determined by the most pressing scientific questions, in the context of current knowledge. However, definitive research studies take time, while real-world experience accumulates. Adoption of new practices before adequate comparison with current treatments threatens successful study conduct and may expose patients to what ultimately turns out to be inferior treatment. We conducted a survey to understand the hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) community's predictions about future practice trends in the HCT field and results of ongoing Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN) trials to gauge how the HCT community views the treatments being studied. The survey was distributed between February and March 2019 to an electronic mailing list of HCT clinicians practicing in the United States maintained by the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR). Of 986 clinicians surveyed, 315 responded (32%). They predicted an increase in the number of HCTs performed for malignant hematologic diseases and benign diseases such as sickle cell, autoimmune, and genetic disorders. The majority (63%) predicted that matched related donors will remain the preferred donor source for adult HCT recipients in 2023, but 21% predicted haploidentical (haplo) donors and 17% predicted matched unrelated donors would be the preferred source. Most respondents (65%) predicted a decrease in the use of umbilical cord blood (UCB) as a graft source for HCT. Most respondents also predicted that calcineurin-based graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis would be replaced by post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy) (55%), biomarker use would become standard practice to guide GVHD therapy (73%), and steroids would be combined with other agents as first-line therapy for newly diagnosed acute (53%) and chronic GVHD (54%). In ongoing BMT CTN trials in which outcomes are not yet known, 60% to 92% of respondents had an opinion about which arm they thought would be superior. However, not all respondents predicted the same outcome, with 44% to 88% choosing the same arm. There was no clear relationship between the proportion predicting the same arm would win and accrual to the trial. Survey respondents were optimistic about an increasing volume of transplantation procedures, and they also expected significant changes in HCT practice over the next few years, including wider adoption of PTCy GVHD prophylaxis, increased use of biomarkers to guide GVHD therapy, and decreased use of UCB HCT. The degree of equipoise in the community about the relative efficacy of therapies being studied did not seem to affect accrual to current BMT CTN trials, but this is an area that needs further investigation.
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- Nosha Farhadfar
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC; GW Cancer Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Hematology-Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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Meyer C, Mau LW, Murphy EA, Denzen EM, Hayes E, Haven D, Moore H, Foster J, Preussler JM, Burns LJ. Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Acute Myeloid Leukemia to Improve Referral for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Consultation. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2020; 17:1473-1481. [PMID: 31805525 DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2019.7327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 06/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Outcomes after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are better when HCT is performed during first complete remission (CR1). This study aimed to identify and address knowledge gaps that affect the timely referral of patients for HCT consultation. METHODS A mixed-methods educational needs assessment included a national survey and focus groups consisting of hematologists/oncologists. An educational intervention of 3 webinars addressed identified knowledge gaps. RESULTS A total of 150 hematologists/oncologists were recruited for the survey, of whom 20 participated in focus groups. Physicians in practice 0 to 10 years were 4.2 times more likely to refer for HCT consultation in CR1 than those with >10 years in practice (P=.0027). Physicians seeing ≤10 patients with AML in the past year were 3.7 times more likely to refer for HCT consultation in CR1 than those seeing >10 patients (P=.0028). Knowledge gaps included (1) improper classification of molecular/cytogenetic results for risk stratification, (2) lack of understanding that disease stage impacts outcomes, and (3) use of chronologic age alone for referral decision-making. Combined attendance for the webinars was 1,098 clinicians; >74% of participants indicated that they would apply the knowledge they gained in clinical practice. Trends were observed toward improvement in identifying favorable-risk AML, from 48% to 60% (n=85; P=.12); improvement in identifying 2 poor-risk cytogenetic/molecular abnormalities, with the percentage of respondents indicating chromosome 7 deletion increasing from 51% to 70% (n=53; P=.05) and that of respondents indicating TP53 mutation increasing from 42% to 62% (n=62; P=.03); and improvement in identifying which patients with AML aged >60 years were most likely to benefit from HCT based on cytogenetic/molecular features, with the percentage of correct responses increasing from 66% to 81% (n=62; P=.07). CONCLUSIONS The webinars met the educational needs of learners and improved knowledge gaps. This study provided novel insights into the learning needs of clinicians who care for patients with AML and a roadmap for future educational interventions.
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- Christa Meyer
- aNational Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match, and.,bCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- aNational Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match, and.,bCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- aNational Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match, and.,bCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- aNational Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match, and.,bCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- aNational Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match, and
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- bCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- bCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- aNational Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match, and.,bCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- aNational Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match, and.,bCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Foster J, Moore H, Preussler JM, Burns LJ, Umar JH, Glotzbecker B, Johnson S, MacDougall H, Mau LW, Murphy EA, Ustun C, Ferguson SS, Denzen E. Information Needs for Treatment Decision-making of Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Patients 65 Years or Older and Caregivers. J Cancer Educ 2020; 35:651-660. [PMID: 30877651 DOI: 10.1007/s13187-019-01506-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is a complex and potentially life-threatening treatment option for patients with hematologic malignant and non-malignant diseases. Advances have made HCT a potentially curative treatment option for patients 65 years of age and older (older patients), and patient education resources should be adapted to meet their needs. To better understand the information needs of older patients and their caregivers for HCT treatment decision-making, the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP)/Be The Match® conducted a qualitative comprehensive needs assessment. Focus groups, offered in person or by phone, were conducted with older HCT patients and primary caregivers of older HCT patients at three transplant centers in the USA that were selected based on the number of older adults treated and geographic diversity. The one-hour, semi-structured discussions were recorded and transcribed verbatim. The analysis was performed with the NVivo 10 software for identification of conceptual themes. Five telephone and six in person focus groups of patients (n = 35) and caregivers (n = 10) were conducted. Themes that emerged included the following: (1) the need for tailored resources with age-specific recovery expectations; (2) the need for the right amount of information at the right times; and (3) the benefit of peer support. Effective patient education supports learning and treatment decision-making. As HCT increasingly becomes a treatment option for older patients, tailored educational resources are needed. These focus group results can inform and guide the development of new educational resources for older adults with hematologic diseases considering and planning for HCT.
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- Jackie Foster
- National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA.
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- National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
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- Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 400 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1500 East Durate Road, Durate, CA, 91010, USA
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- University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
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- University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match®, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, 500 N 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55401-1206, USA
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Preussler JM, Denzen EM, Majhail NS, Baker KS, McCann M, Burns LJ, Yi J, Syrjala KL. Engaging hematopoietic cell transplantation patients and caregivers in the design of print and mobile application individualized survivorship care plan tools. Support Care Cancer 2020; 28:2805-2816. [PMID: 31729567 PMCID: PMC7189809 DOI: 10.1007/s00520-019-05114-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Accepted: 10/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE INSPIRE (INteractive Survivorship Program with Information and REsources) is an online health program that includes a mobile app, website, health action plan, and individualized survivorship care plans for adult hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) survivors. The INSPIRE program integrates two previously effective randomized control trials that tested an internet-based program and patient-centered survivorship care plans for HCT survivors. METHODS Three focus groups were conducted with a total of 22 participants (20 patients, 2 caregivers/patient advocates) to explore patient and caregiver preferences and to optimize the patient-centered emphasis of INSPIRE. Adult (age > 18 years at the time of study entry) HCT recipients had to be at least 1-year post-HCT to participate; caregivers/patient advocates were also eligible. Participants had to be able to communicate in English, could have any diagnosis, transplant type, or donor source, and could have had multiple transplants. RESULTS All patient participants received an allogeneic HCT; average time since HCT was 8 years (range 2-22 years). The majority of participants were female (77.3%). Overall, the tools were well received by participants in this study, particularly the personalized features of all the tools. Major themes included interest in having the ability to tailor features to individual needs, and an interest in tracking information over time. DISCUSSION Engaging patients and caregivers is invaluable to optimize tools designed to improve HCT survivorship care. Print, online, and mobile-based tools, tailored to individual patients' treatment history and requisite follow-up care, can provide otherwise unavailable expertise and guidelines for care.
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- Jaime M Preussler
- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, 55401, USA.
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, 55401, USA
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- Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, 55401, USA
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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Salit RB, Lee SJ, Burns LJ, Shaw BE, Majhail NS, Bhatt NS, Wood WA, Syrjala KL. Return-to-Work Guidelines and Programs for Post-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Survivors: An Initial Survey. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2020; 26:1520-1526. [PMID: 32360563 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2020.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) requires absence from work, with potential consequences of unemployment and early retirement. Risk factors for failure to return to work (RTW) following HCT have been reported, but there is little information about how transplant centers facilitate the RTW transition for their post-HCT patients. In the present study, we aimed to determine (1) whether transplant centers have guidelines for RTW post-HCT and the consistency of these guidelines and (2) whether centers have RTW programs for their patients, and the characteristics of these programs. We surveyed representatives from 150 adult transplant centers regarding their RTW guidelines and RTW programs. Centers were selected if they performed at least 50 HCTs (autologous [auto] and/or allogeneic [allo]) annually. The online survey contained 32 open-ended and closed-ended questions and 3 questions each eliciting respondents' demographic and transplant centers information. We received completed surveys from 45 centers (30% response rate). Forty-four percent of centers reported having RTW guidelines. All centers recommend RTW at 6 months or less after HCT for their auto-HCT recipients; recommendations for allo-HCT recipients ranged from 4 months to >1 year after HCT having jobs involving interactions with children, sick people, and animals was considered a reason to delay RTW by most centers. Although 87% of centers endorsed that RTW is a problem for post-HCT recipients, only 36% reported having an RTW program for their patients. The majority validated that RTW programs would be either somewhat helpful (36%) or very helpful (51%) for their patients. The majority of responding HCT centers believe that RTW is a problem for patients after HCT; however, consistent guidelines and RTW programs are lacking. With increasing numbers of HCT survivors, efforts to create standardized guidelines and to develop RTW programs are needed.
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- Rachel B Salit
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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- Transplant, Cellular Therapy, and Health Services Research, LLC, Stillwater, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Ohio
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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Mau LW, Preussler JM, Burns LJ, Leppke S, Majhail NS, Meyer CL, Mupfudze T, Saber W, Steinert P, Vanness DJ. Healthcare Costs of Treating Privately Insured Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in the United States from 2004 to 2014: A Generalized Additive Modeling Approach. Pharmacoeconomics 2020; 38:515-526. [PMID: 32128725 PMCID: PMC7194165 DOI: 10.1007/s40273-020-00891-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this study was to predict healthcare cost trajectories for patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) receiving allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT), as a function of days since chemotherapy initiation, days relative to alloHCT, and days before death or last date of insurance eligibility (LDE). An exploratory objective examined patients with AML receiving chemotherapy only. METHODS We used Optum's de-identified Clinformatics® Data Mart Database to construct cumulative cost trajectories from chemotherapy initiation to death or LDE (through 31 December 2014) for US patients aged 20-74 years diagnosed between 1 March 2004 and 31 December 2013 (n = 187 alloHCT; n = 253 chemotherapy only). We used generalized additive modeling (GAM) to predict expected trajectories and bootstrapped confidence intervals (CIs) at user-specified intervals conditional on dates of alloHCT and death or LDE relative to chemotherapy initiation. RESULTS Expected costs (in 2017 values) for a hypothetical patient receiving alloHCT 60 days after chemotherapy initiation and followed for 5 years were $US572,000 (95% CI 517,000-633,000); $US119,000 (95% CI 51,000-192,000); $US102,000 (95% CI 0-285,000); $US79,000 (95% CI 0-233,000), for years 1-4, respectively, and either $US494,000 (95% CI 212,000-799,000) or $US108,000 (95% CI 0-230,000) in year 5, whether the patient died or was lost to follow-up on day 1825, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Rates of cost accrual varied over time since chemotherapy initiation, with accelerations around the time of alloHCT and death. GAM is a potentially useful approach for imputing longitudinal costs relative to treatment initiation and one or more intercurrent, clinical, or terminal events in randomized controlled trials or registries with unrecorded costs or for dynamic decision-analytic models.
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- Lih-Wen Mau
- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Apriori Bayesian Consulting, LLC, 2643 Sleepy Hollow Drive, State College, PA, 16803, USA.
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Shaw BE, Burns LJ, Mattila D, Mussetter A, Chen M, Vasu S, Pidala JA, Muffly L, Uberti J, Tamari R, Leckrone E, Myers J, Brazauskas R, Mau LW, Rizzo JD, Saber W, Horowitz MM, Lee SJ, Flynn K. Feasibility of Centralized Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome (ePRO) Collection By an Outcome Registry, a CIBMTR Study of Patients on the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Coverage with Evidence Development (CMS CED) Myelodysplasia Protocol. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.12.234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Mishra A, Preussler JM, Al-Mansour Z, Bachanova V, Bhatt VR, Bredeson C, Chhabra S, D'Souza A, Dahi PB, DeFilipp Z, Gowda L, Hacker ED, Hashmi SK, Howard DS, Jakubowski AA, Jayani R, Johnston L, Koll T, Lin RJ, McCurdy SR, Michaelis LC, Muffly L, Nathwani N, Olin RL, Popat UR, Rodriguez C, Rosko A, Runaas L, Sabloff M, Shore TB, Shune L, Sorror ML, Sung AD, Ustun C, Wood W, Burns LJ, Artz AS. Transplant Physicians’ Attitudes on Candidacy for Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) in Older Patients: The Need for a Standardized Geriatric Assessment (GA) Tool. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.12.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Dunavin N, Mau LW, Meyer CL, Divine C, Abdallah AO, Leppke S, D'Souza A, Denzen E, Saber W, Burns LJ, Ganguly S. Health Care Reimbursement, Service Utilization, and Outcomes among Medicare Beneficiaries with Multiple Myeloma Receiving Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Inpatient and Outpatient Settings. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2020; 26:805-813. [PMID: 31917269 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.12.772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2019] [Revised: 12/26/2019] [Accepted: 12/31/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (auto-HCT) is a complex procedure that can be performed in both inpatient (IP) and outpatient (OP) care settings. We examined reimbursement, service utilization, and patient financial responsibility among Medicare beneficiaries with multiple myeloma who underwent auto-HCT in the IP and OP settings using a merged dataset of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research observational database and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicare administrative claims data. Selection criteria included first auto-HCT, time from diagnosis to auto-HCT <18 months, and continuous enrollment in Medicare Parts A and B for 30 days before HCT index claims and 100 days post-HCT or until death. Total reimbursement and patient responsibility were adjusted for patient and disease characteristics using a weighted generalized linear model. The final cohort comprised 1640 patients, 1445 (88%) who received IP-HCT and 195 (12%) who received OP-HCT. The adjusted total mean reimbursement was higher for IP-HCT compared with OP-HCT ($82,368 [95% CI, $77,643 to $87,381] versus $46,824 [95% CI, $43,567-$50,325]; P < .0001). Adjusted total mean patient responsibility was $4736 for IP-HCT (95% CI, $4731 to $5133) and $6944 for OP-HCT (95% CI, $6296 to $7658) (P < .0001). Within 100 days post-HCT, 107 of the 195 OP-HCT recipients (55%) had at least 1 subsequent admission, compared with 348 of the 1445 IP-HCT recipients (24%). Reimbursement, service utilization, and financial responsibility varied by HCT setting. As the number of Medicare beneficiaries who undergo auto-HCT increases, coverage policy needs to consider how location of services leads to variations in the financial burden for both hospital systems and patients.
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- Neil Dunavin
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and the National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and the National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- University of Kansas Medical Center, Westwood, Kansas
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and the National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and the National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Davies SM, Iannone R, Alonzo TA, Wang YC, Gerbing R, Soni S, Kolb EA, Meshinchi S, Orchard PJ, Burns LJ, Shenoy S, Leung W. A Phase 2 Trial of KIR-Mismatched Unrelated Donor Transplantation Using in Vivo T Cell Depletion with Antithymocyte Globulin in Acute Myelogenous Leukemia: Children's Oncology Group AAML05P1 Study. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2019; 26:712-717. [PMID: 31870931 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.12.723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2019] [Revised: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 12/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) who undergo killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR)-mismatched haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) have improved survival. Children's Oncology Group AAML05P1 is a prospective phase 2 trial of unrelated donor (URD) HSCT in which KIR typing of donors was available to the treating physician at donor selection, aiming to determine feasibility (defined as the ability to obtain donor samples from URDs and obtain KIR data before transplantation) of prospective selection of KIR-mismatched donors and effect on outcomes. Patients age ≤30 years with high-risk AML at presentation or relapsed AML were eligible; the study accrued 90 evaluable patients. After enrollment, as many as 5 potential URD samples were KIR-typed (including gene expression) in a central laboratory and results reported to the treating physician, who made the final donor selection. Cases were categorized as KIR-matched or KIR-mismatched using different published strategies. Overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), and relapse did not differ significantly by KIR mismatch status. Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) was significantly lower in recipients of KIR-mismatched stem cells (35% versus 60%; P = .027). We examined DFS according to time to natural killer (NK) receptor recovery after HSCT. NK p44 recovery was significantly associated with KIR mismatch and with decreased DFS and increased relapse risk in multivariate Cox analysis (P = .006 and .009, respectively). We show that prospective selection of URD according to KIR type was feasible, acute GVHD was reduced, but survival did not differ using any model of KIR mismatch. However, the study enrolled mostly matched transplants, so ligand-ligand mismatch was rare, and thus the sample size was insufficient to determine potential benefit according to this model. Cord blood recipients demonstrated a trend toward improved DFS with KIR mismatch, but the study was not powered to detect a difference in this small subset of patients. Our data suggest that recovery of NK receptor expression might influence DFS after HSCT.
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- Stella M Davies
- Division of Bone marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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- Children's Oncology Group and Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Pediatrics- Stem Cell Transplant, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Alfred I. Dupont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be the Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri
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- Bone Marrow Transplant Department, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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Mau LW, Meyer C, Burns LJ, Saber W, Steinert P, Vanness DJ, Preussler JM, Silver A, Leppke S, Murphy EA, Denzen E. Reimbursement, Utilization, and 1-Year Survival Post-Allogeneic Transplantation for Medicare Beneficiaries With Acute Myeloid Leukemia. JNCI Cancer Spectr 2019; 3:pkz048. [PMID: 31750417 PMCID: PMC6845850 DOI: 10.1093/jncics/pkz048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Revised: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Background The economics of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) for older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) affects clinical practice and public policy. To assess reimbursement, utilization, and overall survival (OS) up to 1 year post-alloHCT for Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years or older with AML, a unique merged dataset of Medicare claims and national alloHCT registry data was analyzed. Methods Patients diagnosed with AML undergoing alloHCT from 2010 to 2011 were included for a retrospective cohort analysis with generalized linear model adjustment. One-year post-alloHCT reimbursement included Medicare, secondary payer, and beneficiary copayments (no coinsurance) (inflation adjusted to 2017 dollars). Cost-to-charge ratios were applied to estimate department-specific inpatient costs. Cox proportional hazards regression models were utilized to identify risk factors of 1-year OS post-alloHCT. Results A total of 250 patients met inclusion criteria. Mean total reimbursement was $230 815 (95% confidence interval [CI] = $214 381 to $247 249) 1 year after alloHCT. Pharmacy was the most- costly inpatient service category. Adjusted mean total reimbursement was statistically higher for patients who received cord blood grafts (P = .01), myeloablative conditioning (P < .0001), and alloHCT in the Northeast and West (P = .03). Mortality increased with age (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.08, 95% CI = 1.0 to 1.17), poorer Karnofsky performance score (<90% vs ≥90%, HR = 1.60, 95% CI = 1.08 to 2.35), and receipt of myeloablative conditioning (HR = 1.88, 95% CI = 1.21 to 2.92). Conclusions This merged dataset allowed adjustment for a richer set of patient- and HCT-related characteristics than claims data alone. The finding that nonmyeloablative conditioning was associated with lower reimbursement and improved OS 1 year post-alloHCT warrants further investigation.
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- Lih-Wen Mau
- See the Notes section for the full list of authors' affiliations
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- See the Notes section for the full list of authors' affiliations
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- See the Notes section for the full list of authors' affiliations
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- See the Notes section for the full list of authors' affiliations
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- See the Notes section for the full list of authors' affiliations
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- See the Notes section for the full list of authors' affiliations
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- See the Notes section for the full list of authors' affiliations
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- See the Notes section for the full list of authors' affiliations
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Pidala J, Mupfudze TG, Payton T, Barker J, Perales MA, Shaw BE, Fernández-Viña M, Burns LJ, Dehn J. Urgent Time to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A National Survey of Transplant Physicians and Unrelated Donor Search Coordinators Facilitated by the Histocompatibility Advisory Group to the National Marrow Donor Program. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2019; 25:2501-2506. [PMID: 31419569 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Revised: 08/07/2019] [Accepted: 08/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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To characterize donor search and selection practices, the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Histocompatibility Advisory Group developed a survey of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) physicians and search coordinators. The objectives were to describe search practices, understand practices surrounding urgent time to HCT, and characterize strategies used when identifying a matched unrelated donor is unlikely. Participants included US physician members of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy and donor search coordinators within the NMDP network. The web-based survey was conducted from February to May 2018. Three hundred seventeen of 858 physicians (37%) and 225 of 327 coordinators (69%) responded, of which 263 and 194, respectively, were eligible and included in the analysis. Most centers, 142 (95%), were represented; 108 (72%) had at least 1 physician and 128 (85%) had at least 1 coordinator respondent. Most (68% physicians, 61% coordinators) indicated donor selection decisions were made by individual physicians. Urgent time to HCT was most commonly (90% and 87% of physicians and coordinators, respectively) defined as HCT within 4 to 6 weeks of search initiation. Higher HCT urgency was associated with a higher disease risk index. For urgent cases with low probability of an 8/8 matched unrelated donor , 75% and 80% of physicians and coordinators endorsed a short (1 to 2 weeks) unrelated donor search before proceeding to an alternative donor source. NMDP-provided solutions to expedite donor identification were strongly endorsed. This survey clarified current donor selection practices in the United States and defined urgent time to HCT. These data provide insight to NMDP on potential solutions to support the path to transplant, such as highlighting futile searches and providing alternative donor options at the time of search initiation.
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- Joseph Pidala
- Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Immunotherapy, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida.
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- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, Mimmesota
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- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, Mimmesota
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- National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Salit RB, Lee SJ, Burns LJ, Shaw BE, Nakano C, Majhail NS, Bhatt NS, Wood WA, Syrjala KL. Guidelines and Support for Return to Work after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.12.612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Arora P, Duarte L, Mau LW, Meyer C, Senneka M, Murphy EA, Desai R, Balkrishnan R, Burns LJ, Ballen KK. Access to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) for Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in the State of Virginia. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.12.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Abufarhaneh M, Ehlers SL, Burns LJ, Hashmi SK. Effects of smoking on outcomes of hematopoietic cell transplantation: a systemic review and future directions. Bone Marrow Transplant 2019; 54:1382-1390. [DOI: 10.1038/s41409-019-0485-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2018] [Revised: 01/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Schoemans HM, Finn L, Foster J, Roche-Green A, Bevans M, Kullberg S, Lee E, Sargeant C, Schatz BA, Scheeler K, Shaw BE, Shereck E, Murphy EA, Burns LJ, Schmit-Pokorny K. A Conceptual Framework and Key Research Questions in Educational Needs of Blood and Marrow Transplantation Patients, Caregivers, and Families. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2019; 25:1416-1423. [PMID: 30796997 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2019.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Patient, caregiver, and family education and support was 1 of 6 key areas of interest identified by the National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match 2-year project to prioritize patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) goals for the blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) community. PCOR focuses on research to help patients and their caregivers make informed decisions about health care. Therefore, each area of interest was assigned to a working group with broad representation, including patients, caregivers, and clinicians. Each working group was charged with identifying gaps in knowledge and making priority recommendations for critical research to fill those gaps. The report from this working group presents a conceptual framework to address gaps in knowledge regarding patient and caregiver education in BMT and recommendations for priority research questions on this topic.
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- Helene M Schoemans
- Department of Hematology, University Hospital Leuven and KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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- Division of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Family and Palliative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
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- Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Cancer Center Administration, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Information Resource Center, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Rye Brook, New York
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- Center for Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Majhail NS, Murphy E, Laud P, Preussler JM, Denzen EM, Abetti B, Adams A, Besser R, Burns LJ, Cerny J, Drexler R, Hahn T, Idossa L, Jahagirdar B, Kamani N, Loren A, Mattila D, McGuirk J, Moore H, Reynolds J, Saber W, Salazar L, Schatz B, Stiff P, Wingard JR, Syrjala KL, Baker KS. Randomized controlled trial of individualized treatment summary and survivorship care plans for hematopoietic cell transplantation survivors. Haematologica 2018; 104:1084-1092. [PMID: 30514795 PMCID: PMC6518896 DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2018.203919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2018] [Accepted: 11/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Survivorship Care Plans (SCPs) may facilitate long-term care for cancer survivors, but their effectiveness has not been established in hematopoietic cell transplantation recipients. We evaluated the impact of individualized SCPs on patient-reported outcomes among transplant survivors. Adult (≥18 years at transplant) survivors who were 1-5 years post transplantation, proficient in English, and without relapse or secondary cancers were eligible for this multicenter randomized trial. SCPs were developed based on risk-factors and treatment exposures using patient data routinely submitted by transplant centers to the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and published guidelines for long-term follow up of transplant survivors. Phone surveys assessing patient-reported outcomes were conducted at baseline and at 6 months. The primary end point was confidence in survivorship information, and secondary end points included cancer and treatment distress, knowledge of transplant exposures, health care utilization, and health-related quality of life. Of 495 patients enrolled, 458 completed a baseline survey and were randomized (care plan=231, standard care=227); 200 (87%) and 199 (88%) completed the 6-month assessments, respectively. Patients’ characteristics were similar in the two arms. Participants on the care plan arm reported significantly lower distress scores at 6 months and an increase in the Mental Component Summary quality of life score assessed by the Short Form 12 (SF-12) instrument. No effect was observed on the end point of confidence in survivorship information or other secondary outcomes. Provision of individualized SCPs generated using registry data was associated with reduced distress and improved mental domain of quality of life among 1-5 year hematopoietic cell transplantation survivors. Trial registered at clinicaltrials.gov 02200133.
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN.,Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN.,Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN.,Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.,Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
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El-Jawahri A, LeBlanc TW, Burns LJ, Denzen E, Meyer C, Mau LW, Roeland EJ, Wood WA, Petersdorf E. What do transplant physicians think about palliative care? A national survey study. Cancer 2018; 124:4556-4566. [PMID: 30289980 PMCID: PMC6289734 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.31709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Revised: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 07/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Despite its established benefits, palliative care (PC) is rarely utilized for hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients. We sought to examine transplant physicians' perceptions of PC. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey of transplant physicians recruited from the American-Society-for-Blood-and-Marrow-Transplantation. Using a 28-item questionnaire adapted from prior studies, we examined physicians' access to PC services, and perceptions of PC. We computed a composite score of physicians' attitudes about PC (mean = 16.9, SD = 3.37) and explored predictors of attitudes using a linear mixed model. RESULTS 277/1005 (28%) of eligible physicians completed the questionnaire. The majority (76%) stated that they trust PC clinicians to care for their patients, but 40% felt that PC clinicians do not have enough understanding to counsel HSCT patients about their treatments. Most endorsed that when patients hear the term PC, they feel scared (82%) and anxious (76%). Nearly half (46%) reported that the service name 'palliative care' is a barrier to utilization. Female sex (β = 0.85, P = .024), having <10 years of clinical practice (β = 1.39, P = .004), and perceived quality of PC services (β = 0.60, P < .001) were all associated with a more positive attitude towards PC. Physicians with a higher sense of ownership over their patients' PC issues (β = -0.36, P < .001) were more likely to have a negative attitude towards PC. CONCLUSIONS The majority of transplant physicians trust PC, but have substantial concerns about PC clinicians' knowledge about HSCT and patients' perception of the term 'palliative care'. Interventions are needed to promote collaboration, improve perceptions, and enhance integration of PC for HSCT recipients.
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- Areej El-Jawahri
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis MN
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- University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center, Oncology & Palliative Care, la Jolla, CA
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- University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Chapel Hill, NC
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Bhatt NS, Brazauskas R, Tecca HR, Carreras J, Burns LJ, Phelan R, Salit RB, Syrjala KL, Talano JAM, Shaw BE. Post-transplantation employment status of adult survivors of childhood allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant: A report from the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR). Cancer 2018; 125:144-152. [PMID: 30368771 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.31781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Revised: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Data are scarce regarding employment outcomes of survivors of childhood allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) and the factors that affect their employment status. METHODS By using the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research database, the authors studied employment outcomes of ≥1-year survivors of childhood alloHCT who were age ≥18 years at their most recent assessment (year of transplantation, 1985-2010). Employment status was assessed at their attained ages (ages 18-22, 23-27, and 28-32 years) and according to transplantation center (TC) location (United States or International). A multivariable analysis assessing the factors that affected employed status (full-time/part-time work or student) was performed. RESULTS Unemployment rates among 2844 survivors were persistently high at all attained ages (United States TCs: ages 18-22 [14%], 23-27 [15%], and 28-32 [13%] years; International TCs: ages 18-22 [56%], 23-27 [53%], and 28-32 [68%] years). The factors associated a with higher likelihood of employment included: older age at alloHCT (ages 5-9-years: hazard ratio [HR], 2.07; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.65-2.6; ages 10-14 years: HR, 4.43; 95% CI, 3.58-5.47; ages 15-18-years: HR, 7.13; 95% CI, 5.72-8.88), myeloablative conditioning without total body irradiation (TBI) (HR, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.38-1.77), reduced-intensity conditioning with TBI (HR, 1.47; 95% CI, 1.19-1.8) or without TBI (HR, 2.51; 95% CI, 2.15-2.92), and US-based TC (HR, 1.84; 95% CI, 1.62-2.08). CONCLUSIONS Young adult survivors of childhood alloHCT have high unemployment rates at all studied attained ages after HCT. Future efforts should be directed toward understanding the causes of unemployment their and relation to quality of life using patient-reported outcome measures.
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- Neel S Bhatt
- Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.,Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.,Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Equity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and CIBMTR, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.,Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Denzen EM, Preussler JM, Murphy EA, Baker KS, Burns LJ, Foster J, Idossa L, Moore HK, Payton TJ, Haven D, Jahagirdar B, Kamani N, Rizzo JD, Salazar L, Schatz BA, Syrjala KL, Wingard JR, Majhail NS. Tailoring a Survivorship Care Plan: Patient and Provider Preferences for Recipients of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2018; 25:562-569. [PMID: 30315940 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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This study aimed to develop a survivorship care plan (SCP) that can be individualized to facilitate long-term follow-up care of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) survivors. A sample SCP was developed that included 2 documents: a treatment summary and preventive care recommendations that combined data on treatment exposures routinely submitted by HCT centers to the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) with long-term follow-up guidelines. Focus groups were conducted by phone to characterize the critical patient-centered elements of the SCP. Focus group eligibility criteria included (1) adult patients >1 year post-HCT and their caregivers (3 groups; n = 22), (2) HCT physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) (2 groups; n = 14), (3) HCT nurses and social workers (4 groups; n = 17), and (4) community health care professionals (3 groups; n = 24). Transcripts were analyzed for saturation of key themes using NVivo 10 software. Patients and caregivers suggested combining the treatment summary and care guidelines into a single document. They also requested sections on sexual and emotional health and the immune system. Providers wanted the treatment summary to focus only on what they absolutely must know. Themes were similar across healthcare professionals, although screening for psychosocial issues was emphasized more by the nurses and social workers. All preferred to receive the SCP electronically; however, hardcopy was considered necessary for some patients. All felt that the SCP would facilitate appropriate post-HCT care. This study highlights the need for an SCP instrument to facilitate HCT survivorship care. Furthermore, it demonstrates the feasibility and value of engaging HCT recipients, caregivers, and providers in developing an SCP. Their feedback was incorporated into a final SCP that was subsequently tested in a randomized trial.
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- Ellen M Denzen
- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN.
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, MN
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI
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Khera N, Mau LW, Denzen EM, Meyer C, Houg K, Lee SJ, Horowitz MM, Burns LJ. Translation of Clinical Research into Practice: An Impact Assessment of the Results from the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network Protocol 0201 on Unrelated Graft Source Utilization. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2018; 24:2204-2210. [PMID: 29966761 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.06.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Accepted: 06/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Barriers and facilitators to adoption of results of clinical trials are substantial and poorly understood. We sought to examine whether the results of the randomized, multicenter Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN) 0201 study comparing peripheral blood (PB) with bone marrow (BM) stem cells for unrelated donor (URD) hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) changed practice from PB to BM graft utilization and explored factors that impact graft selection and translation of research results into practice. The difference between use of URD BM and PB in the 2 years before and after publication of results in 2012 was examined using observational data collected by the Center for Blood and Marrow Transplant Research. A web-based survey of transplant physicians was conducted to understand the change in physician-reported personal and center preferred URD graft. No significant change in use of BM versus PB grafts occurred after 2012. Both BMT CTN participating and nonparticipating centers continued to use PB. Ninety-two percent of respondents were aware of the study results; 18% reported a change in personal and 16% reported a change in their center's practice of requesting BM instead of PB for URD HCT. Patient characteristics and the perception that engaging local champions to increase the evidence uptake were factors associated with personal or center change in practice. Despite awareness of the trial results, fewer than one-fifth of HCT physicians reported practice change in response to the BMT CTN 0201 results. Observational data confirmed no discernible change in practice.
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- Nandita Khera
- Department of Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, Arizona.
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- Health Services Research Program, National Marrow Donor Program/ Be the Match Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Health Services Research Program, National Marrow Donor Program/ Be the Match Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Health Services Research Program, National Marrow Donor Program/ Be the Match Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Health Services Research Program, National Marrow Donor Program/ Be the Match Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Medicine, CIBMTR and Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Health Services Research Program, National Marrow Donor Program/ Be the Match Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Strouse C, Zhang Y, Zhang MJ, DiGilio A, Pasquini M, Horowitz MM, Lee S, Ho V, Ramanathan M, Chinratanalab W, Loren A, Burns LJ, Artz A, Villa KF, Saber W. Risk Score for the Development of Veno-Occlusive Disease after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2018; 24:2072-2080. [PMID: 29928989 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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A risk score identifying patients at high risk for veno-occlusive disease (VOD) may aid efforts to study preventive strategies for this uncommon complication of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Patients receiving a first allogeneic HCT between 2008 and 2013 as reported to the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (N = 13,097) were randomly divided into training and validation sets. Independent prognostic factors for development of VOD by day +100 after HCT were identified with a multivariate logistic regression model. A risk score was constructed in the training set using the significant factors and confirmed in the validation set. Baseline characteristics of the training and validation sets were balanced. In total, 637 patients (4.9%) developed VOD by day +100. Younger age, positive hepatitis B/C serology, lower Karnofsky performance scale score, use of sirolimus, disease, disease status at transplant, and conditioning regimen were independent prognostic factors. Myeloablative conditioning regimens were associated with higher risk of VOD. Busulfan-based myeloablative conditioning regimens guided by pharmacokinetic monitoring were associated with higher risk than those without pharmacokinetic monitoring. Patients were stratified into 4 distinct, statistically significantly different groups by their risk score percentile. This pretransplant risk score successfully stratified allogeneic HCT patients by risk of developing VOD, was validated in an independent set, and demonstrated strong discriminatory ability to identify a high-risk cohort.
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- Christopher Strouse
- Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplantation, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
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- Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worchester, Massachusetts
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- National Marrow Donor Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Burns LJ, Abbetti B, Arnold SD, Bender J, Doughtie S, El-Jawahiri A, Gee G, Hahn T, Horowitz MM, Johnson S, Juckett M, Krishnamurit L, Kullberg S, LeMaistre CF, Loren A, Majhail NS, Murphy EA, Rizzo D, Roche-Green A, Saber W, Schatz BA, Schmit-Pokorny K, Shaw BE, Syrjala KL, Tierney DK, Ullrich C, Vanness DJ, Wood WA, Denzen EM. Engaging Patients in Setting a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Agenda in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2018; 24:1111-1118. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2018.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2018] [Accepted: 01/28/2018] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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El-Jawahri A, LeBlanc TW, Burns LJ, Denzen EM, Meyer C, Mau LW, Roeland E, Wood WA, Petersdorf EW. Barriers to palliative care (PC) utilization in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT). J Clin Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2018.36.15_suppl.10116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Marrow Donor Program/ Be The Match and Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN
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- University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chapel Hill, NC
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Malone AK, Litzow MR, Perales MA, Costa LJ, Wood WA, Komanduri KV, Selby GB, Khan SP, Roy V, Domm J, Burns LJ. Should BMT Become a Certified Subspecialty? Results of the 2017 Board Certification Survey. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.12.311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Vanness D, Preussler JM, Burns LJ, Denzen EM, Leppke SN, Majhail NS, Mupfudze T, Saber W, Silver A, Steinert P, Mau LW. Estimating Propensity Scores for the Receipt of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (AlloHCT) in Outcomes Research Using Claims Data: A Machine Learning Approach. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.12.310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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El-Jawahri AR, LeBlanc TW, Burns LJ, Denzen EM, Meyer C, Mau LW, Roeland E, Wood WA, Petersdorf EW. A National Survey Study of Transplant Physicians' Attitudes About Palliative Care. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.12.608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Bhatt NS, Brazauskas R, Carreras J, Talano JAM, Phelan R, Syrjala KL, Salit RB, Burns LJ, Shaw BE. Survivors of Childhood Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Have Higher Unemployment Rates Compared to the General US Population. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.12.580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Neumann JL, Mau LW, Virani S, Denzen EM, Boyle DA, Boyle NJ, Dabney J, De KeselLofthus A, Kalbacker M, Khan T, Majhail NS, Murphy EA, Paplham P, Parran L, Perales MA, Rockwood TH, Schmit-Pokorny K, Shanafelt TD, Stenstrup E, Wood WA, Burns LJ. Burnout, Moral Distress, Work-Life Balance, and Career Satisfaction among Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Professionals. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2017; 24:849-860. [PMID: 29196079 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2017] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A projected shortage of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) health professionals was identified as a major issue during the National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match System Capacity Initiative. Work-related distress and work-life balance were noted to be potential barriers to recruitment/retention. This study examined these barriers and their association with career satisfaction across HCT disciplines. A cross-sectional, 90-item, web-based survey was administered to advanced practice providers, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and social workers in 2015. Participants were recruited from membership lists of 6 professional groups. Burnout (measured with the Maslach Burnout Inventory subscales of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization) and moral distress (measured by Moral Distress Scale-Revised) were examined to identify work-related distress. Additional questions addressed demographics, work-life balance, and career satisfaction. Of 5759 HCT providers who received an individualized invitation to participate, 914 (16%) responded; 627 additional participants responded to an open link survey. Significant differences in demographic and practice characteristics existed across disciplines (P < .05). The prevalence of burnout differed across disciplines (P < .05) with an overall prevalence of 40%. Over one-half of pharmacists had burnout, whereas social workers had the lowest prevalence at less than one-third. Moral distress scores ranged from 0 to 336 and varied by discipline (P < .05); pharmacists had the highest mean score (62.9 ± 34.8) and social workers the lowest (42.7 ± 24.4). In multivariate and univariate analyses, variables contributing to burnout varied by discipline; however, moral distress was a significant contributing factor for all providers. Those with burnout were more likely to report inadequate work-life balance and a low level of career satisfaction; however, overall there was a high level of career satisfaction across disciplines. Burnout, moral distress, and inadequate work-life balance existed at a variable rate in all HCT disciplines, yet career satisfaction was high. These results suggest specific areas to address in the work environment for HCT health professionals, especially the need for relief of moral distress and a greater degree of personal time. As the creation of healthy work environments is increasingly emphasized to improve quality care and decrease costs, these findings should be used by HCT leadership to develop interventions that mitigate work-related distress and in turn foster recruitment and retention of HCT providers.
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- Joyce L Neumann
- Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Nursing, University of California Irvine Health/Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Orange, California
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- Knight Cancer Institute, Center for Hematologic Malignancy, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Pediatric BMT, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina Hospitals and Clinics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Roswell Park Cancer Institute Nursing Administration, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Nursing, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Medicine, Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
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- University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Nursing, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Kumar A, Ayala E, Hamadani M, Reimer P, Gisselbrecht C, d'Amore F, Jantunen E, Ishida T, Bazarbachi A, Foss F, Advani R, Fenske TS, Lazarus HM, Friedberg JW, Aljurf M, Sokol L, Tobinai K, Tse E, Burns LJ, Chavez JC, Reddy NM, Suzuki R, Ahmed S, Nademanee A, Mohty M, Gopal AK, Fanale MA, Pro B, Moskowitz AJ, Sureda A, Perales MA, Carpenter PA, Savani BN. Clinical Practice Recommendations on Indication and Timing of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Mature T Cell and NK/T Cell Lymphomas: An International Collaborative Effort on Behalf of the Guidelines Committee of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2017; 23:1826-1838. [PMID: 28797780 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.07.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Accepted: 07/30/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Recognizing the significant biological and clinical heterogeneity of mature T cell and natural killer (NK)/T cell lymphomas, the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation invited experts to develop clinical practice recommendations related to the role of autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (auto-HCT) and allogeneic HCT (allo-HCT) for specific histological subtypes. We used the GRADE methodology to aid in moving from evidence to decision making and ultimately to generating final recommendations. Auto-HCT in front-line consolidation is recommended in peripheral T cell lymphoma not otherwise specified (PTCL-NOS), angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma (AITL), anaplastic large cell lymphoma-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALCL-ALK)-negative, NK/T cell (disseminated), enteropathy-associated T cell lymphoma (EATL), and hepatosplenic lymphomas. Auto-HCT in relapsed-sensitive disease is recommended for NK/T cell (localized and disseminated), EATL, subcutaneous panniculitis-like T cell, and ALCL-ALK-positive lymphomas. Auto-HCT is also recommended for PTCL-NOS, AITL, and ALCL-ALK-negative lymphomas if not performed as front-line therapy. Auto-HCT in refractory (primary or relapsed) disease is not recommended for any of the histological subtypes discussed. Allo-HCT in front-line consolidation is recommended for NK/T cell (disseminated), adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL; acute and lymphoma type), and hepatosplenic lymphomas. Allo-HCT for relapsed-sensitive disease is recommended for PTCL-NOS, AITL, ALCL-ALK-negative, ALCL-ALK-positive, NK/T cell (localized and disseminated), ATLL (acute, lymphoma type, smoldering/chronic), mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome (advanced stage IIB-IVB or tumor stage/extracutaneous), EATL, subcutaneous panniculitis-like T cell, and hepatosplenic lymphoma. Allo-HCT in refractory (primary or relapsed refractory) disease is recommended for any aforementioned histological subtypes. Emerging novel therapies will likely be incorporated into the pretransplantation, peritransplantation, and post-transplantation algorithms (auto-HCT or allo-HCT) with the goals of optimizing efficacy and improving outcomes. We acknowledge that there are unique clinical scenarios not covered by these recommendations that may require individualized decisions.
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- Mohamed A Kharfan-Dabaja
- Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and Department of Oncologic Sciences, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
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- Program for Comparative Effectiveness Research, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and Department of Oncologic Sciences, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Essen-Werden, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Oncology Center, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and Department of Oncologic Sciences, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Hematology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Malignant Hematology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and Department of Oncologic Sciences, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida Tampa, Florida
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- Department of Oncology/Hematology, Shimane University Hospital, Shimane, Japan
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- University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Saint-Antoine Hospital, Pierre and Marie Curie University, INSERM UMRs U938, Paris, France
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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- Clinical Hematology Department, Institut Català d'Oncologia, Barcelona, Spain
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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Belete H, Burns LJ, Shanley R, Nayar M, McClune B, Lazaryan A, Bachanova V, Bejanyan N, Ustun C, Brunstein C, Weisdorf DJ, Arora M. Transplantation related toxicity and mortality in older autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation recipients. Am J Hematol 2017; 92:E529-E533. [PMID: 28612451 DOI: 10.1002/ajh.24814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2017] [Revised: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 06/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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With advances in supportive care, autologous hematopoietic cell transplant (AHCT) is increasingly being performed for patients older than 60 years. We analyzed patients receiving an AHCT for multiple myeloma or lymphoma in a contemporary cohort (2010-2012), with consistent treatment and supportive care and compared outcomes [CTCAE grade 3-5 toxicities, nonrelapse mortality (NRM) and overall-survival (OS)] of younger (40-59 years, n = 77) versus older (≥60 years, n = 67) recipients. The proportion of patients with neutropenic infections was higher in the older group (64% vs. 44%; P = 0.02). The proportion of patients with any grade 3-5 toxicity was also higher in the older group (84% vs. 67%, P = 0.03). In multivariate analysis, older age was significantly associated with higher odds (OR: 2.57, 95% CI:1.09-6.05) of grade 3-5 toxicity. The NRM was 3% (older) vs. 0% (younger) at 1 year. The probability of OS at 2 years was lower in the older group (76% vs. 90%, P = 0.04). Though AHCT can be performed safely in older recipients, the higher toxicity and slightly higher NRM in this population needs attention. Studies focusing on risk-stratification in older patients would further help predict toxicity. Further studies addressing enhanced supportive care needs for older patients who are most likely to benefit are indicated.
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- Hewan Belete
- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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- Health Services Research, National Marrow Donor Program; Minneapolis Minnesota
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- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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- Division of Hematology; University of Minnesota, Oncology and Transplantation; Minneapolis Minnesota 55455
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Preussler JM, Meyer CL, Mau LW, Majhail NS, Denzen EM, Edsall KC, Farnia SH, Saber W, Burns LJ, Vanness DJ. Healthcare Costs and Utilization for Patients Age 50 to 64 Years with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treated with Chemotherapy or with Chemotherapy and Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2017; 23:1021-1028. [PMID: 28263920 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2016] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Abstract
The primary aim of this study was to describe healthcare costs and utilization during the first year after a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) for privately insured non-Medicare patients in the United States aged 50 to 64 years who were treated with either chemotherapy or chemotherapy and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT). MarketScan (Truven Health Analytics) adjudicated total payments for inpatient, outpatient, and prescription drug claims from 2007 to 2011 were used to estimate costs from the health system perspective. Stabilized inverse propensity score weights were constructed using logistic regression to account for differential selection of alloHCT over chemotherapy. Weighted generalized linear models adjusted costs and utilization (hospitalizations, inpatient days, and outpatient visit-days) for differences in age, sex, diagnosis year, region, insurance plan type, Elixhauser Comorbidity Index), and 60-day prediagnosis costs. Because mortality data were not available, models could not be adjusted for survival times. Among 29,915 patients with a primary diagnosis of AML, 985 patients met inclusion criteria (774 [79%] receiving chemotherapy alone and 211 [21%] alloHCT). Adjusted mean 1-year costs were $280,788 for chemotherapy and $544,178 for alloHCT. Patients receiving chemotherapy alone had a mean of 4 hospitalizations, 52.9 inpatient days, and 52.4 outpatient visits in the year after AML diagnosis; patients receiving alloHCT had 5 hospitalizations, 92.5 inpatient days, and 74.5 outpatient visits. Treating AML in the first year after diagnosis incurs substantial healthcare costs and utilization with chemotherapy alone and with alloHCT. Our analysis informs healthcare providers, policymakers, and payers so they can better understand treatment costs and utilization for privately insured patients aged 50 to 64 with AML.
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Affiliation(s)
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
| | - Lih-Wen Mau
- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Blood & Marrow Transplant Program, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Davies SM, Iannone R, Alonzo T, Wang J, Gerbing R, Soni S, Kolb EA, Meshinchi S, Orchard P, Burns LJ, Shenoy S, Leung WH. A Prospective Phase 2 Clinical Trial of KIR Mismatched Unrelated Donor Transplantation for Children and Young Adults with High Risk AML: A Report of Children's Oncology Group AAML05P1 Study. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2017.01.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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