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Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on April 30, 2002; DOI 10.1182/blood-2002-02-0400.

Submitted February 6, 2002
Accepted April 18, 2002
Evidence for a Graft-versus-leukemia Effect after Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation with Reduced-intensity Conditioning in Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Rodrigo Martino*, Maria D Caballero, Jose A Perez-Simon, Carmen Canals, Carlos Solano, Joan Bargay, Angel Leon, Josep Sarra, Alvaro Urbano-Ispizua, Guillermo F Sanz, Jose M Moraleda, Salut Brunet, Jesus F San Miguel, and Jordi Sierra
Servei d'Hematologia Clinica, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Hematologia, Hospital Clinico de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Hematologia, Hospital Clinico, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Hematologia, Hospital Son Dureta, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Hematologia, Hospital SAS, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
Hematologia Clinica, Institut Catala d'Oncologia, l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Hematologia Clinica, Hospital Clinico de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Hematologia Clinica, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain
Hematologia, Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain
* Corresponding author; email: rmartino{at}hsp.santpau.es.
We report the results of a prospective study of a reduced-intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen followed by allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) from an HLA-identical sibling in 37 patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML, n=17) or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS, n=20). The median age was 57 years, and 22 (59%) were beyond the early phase of their disease. The incidence of grade II-IV acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) was 19% (5% grade III-IV), and the 1-year incidence of chronic extensive GVHD was 46%. With a median follow-up of 297 days (355 days in 24 survivors), the 1-year probability of transplant-related mortality was 5%, and the one-year progression-free survival was 66%. The 1-year incidence of disease progression in patients with and without GVHD was 13% (95% CI, 4% to 34%) and 58% (95% CI, 36% to 96%), respectively (P=0.008). These results suggest that a graft-versus-leukemia effect plays a crucial role in reducing the risk of relapse after a RIC allograft in AML and MDS.

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