Romain Guièze, Gandhi Damaj, Bruno Pereira, Marie Robin, Patrice Chevallier, Mauricette Michallet, Stéphane Vigouroux, Yves Beguin, Didier Blaise, Jean El Cheikh, Damien Roos-Weil, Anne Thiebaut, Pierre-Simon Rohrlich, Anne Huynh, Jérôme Cornillon, Nathalie Contentin, Felipe Suarez, Bruno Lioure, Mohamad Mohty, Natacha Maillard, Laurence Clement, Sylvie François, Gaëlle Guillerm, Ibrahim Yakoub-Agha
To find out prognostic factors and to investigate different therapeutic approaches, we report on 147 consecutive patients who relapsed after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Sixty-two patients underwent immunotherapy (IT group, second allo-HSCT or donor lymphocyte infusion), 39 received cytoreductive treatment alone (CRT group) and 46 were managed with palliative/supportive cares (PSC group). Two-year rates of overall survival (OS) were 32%, 6%, and 2% in the IT, CRT, and PSC groups, respectively (P < ...
February 2016: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation