Enrico Maffini, Moreno Festuccia, Margherita Ursi, Francesco Barbato, Michele Dicataldo, Marcello Roberto, Elena Campanini, Elisa Dan, Francesco De Felice, Serena De Matteis, Gianluca Storci, Massimiliano Bonafè, Mario Arpinati, Francesca Bonifazi
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Several studies showed that age alone should not be used as an arbitrary parameter to exclude patients from allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). The accessibility to allogeneic HCT programs for older patients with hematological diseases is growing up constantly. The Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research has recently shown that over 30% of allogeneic HCT recipients are at least 60 years old and that nearly 4% are aged 70 or more...
January 1, 2023: Current Opinion in Hematology