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Intensive therapy and autotransplantation in Hodgkin's disease.

Stem Cells 1994 September
Intensive therapy and autologous marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation is often utilized in Hodgkin's disease patients whose disease has progressed after primary conventional chemotherapy. A number of studies have described long-term disease-free survival in up to 50% of transplanted patients. High-dose chemotherapy conditioning regimens such as "CBV" or "BEAM" have been used more often than regimens containing total body irradiation. Usually unpurged autologous bone marrow has been utilized as the source of hematopoietic stem cell reconstitution, although recently the use of "primed" peripheral blood stem cells has increased markedly. The challenges of transplant-related toxicity and recurrence of disease post-transplant are discussed, as well as possible strategies to reduce these problems. The use of autologous transplantation is discussed in three clinical settings: patients who have failed to enter a complete remission (CR) after primary chemotherapy, those who have relapsed within 12 months of attaining a CR and those who have relapsed after a longer (i.e., > or = 12 months) first CR. When compared with conventional salvage chemotherapy, transplantation appears to produce a higher long-term disease-free survival rate in all of these patient groups. However, assessment of an advantage for autotransplantation, particularly in patients with long first remissions, is difficult without a Phase III trial. On the other hand, recently updated results from our center indicate that 72% of patients relapsing after long initial remissions benefit from autotransplantation at this point in their disease course, and that transplant-related mortality is low in this setting. Other issues addressed include the potential role of autologous transplantation as consolidation therapy in selected high-risk patients in an initial CR, as well as the utility of conventional chemotherapy and involved-field radiotherapy in conjunction with autotransplantation.

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