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- Title
Pretransplant bone marrow cellularity and blood count recovery are not associated with relapse or survival risk following allogeneic stem cell transplant for AML in CR.
- Authors
Novitzky‐Basso, Igor; Chen, Carol; Chen, Shiyi; Lipton, Jeffrey H.; Kim, Dennis D.; Viswabandya, Auro; Kumar, Rajat; Lam, Wilson; Law, Arjun; Al‐Shaibani, Zeyad; Gerbitz, Armin; Pasic, Ivan; Mattsson, Jonas; Michelis, Fotios V.
- Abstract
Introduction: Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) can be curative for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Novel therapies may render patients' bone marrow hypocellularity and lead to prolonged post‐therapy pancytopenia. Patients' bone marrow cellularity (BMC) at pretransplant assessment and post‐treatment pancytopenia (classification CR‐incomplete [CRi]) may manifest AML persistence. Methodology: We retrospectively examined the impact of BMC and ELN response (ELNr) on a single‐center cohort of 337 patients who underwent allogeneic HCT for AML in CR1. Results: Median follow‐up was 33 months. Overall survival (OS) for the whole cohort was 55.8% at 2 years, while cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR) was 20.8%, and non‐relapse mortality was 27.5%. OS and CIR were not significantly different between BMC groups; and neither was ELNr. ELNr CRi was associated with BMC aplastic and hypocellular marrow states (P < 2.6e‐8). Multivariate analysis confirmed neither BMC nor attainment of ELNr CR vs CRi affected OS or relapse. Significant factors for survival included age at transplant, cytogenetic risk, development of acute Gr II‐IV GvHD, and moderate–severe chronic GvHD, while cytogenetic risk and chronic GvHD affected relapse. Conclusion: Neither ELNr status nor pretransplant BMC influenced relapse post‐HCT or OS. Hypocellularity and CRi are not negative prognostic factors for post‐HCT outcomes of AML.
- Subjects
STEM cell transplantation; BONE marrow; HEMATOPOIETIC stem cell transplantation; PROGNOSIS; ACUTE myeloid leukemia
- Publication
European Journal of Haematology, 2021, Vol 107, Issue 3, p354
- ISSN
0902-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ejh.13673