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- Title
Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation in Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.
- Authors
Bono, Roberto; Sapienza, Giuseppe; Tringali, Stefania; Rotolo, Cristina; Patti, Caterina; Mulè, Antonino; Calafiore, Valeria; Santoro, Alessandra; Castagna, Luca
- Abstract
Refractory acute myeloid leukaemia is very difficult to treat and represents an unmet clinical need. In recent years, new drugs and combinations of drugs have been tested in this category, with encouraging results. However, all treated patients relapsed and died from the disease. The only curative option is allogeneic transplantation through a graft from a healthy donor immune system. Using myeloablative conditioning regimens, the median overall survival regimens is 19%. Several so-called sequential induction chemotherapies followed by allogeneic transplantation conditioned by reduced intensity regimens have been developed, improving the overall survival to 25–57%. In the allogeneic transplantation field, continuous improvements in practices, particularly regarding graft versus host disease prevention, infection prevention, and treatment, have allowed us to observe improvements in survival rates. This is true mainly for patients in complete remission before transplantation and less so for refractory patients. However, full myeloablative regimens are toxic and carry a high risk of treatment-related mortality. In this review, we describe the results obtained with the different modalities used in more recent retrospective and prospective studies. Based on these findings, we speculate how allogeneic stem cell transplantation could be modified to maximise its therapeutic effect on refractory acute myeloid leukaemia.
- Subjects
ACUTE myeloid leukemia; STEM cell transplantation; GRAFT versus host disease; REFRACTORY materials; OVERALL survival
- Publication
Cells (2073-4409), 2024, Vol 13, Issue 9, p755
- ISSN
2073-4409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cells13090755