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Case Reports
. 2010 Dec;37(12):1040-5.
doi: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2010.00985.x. Epub 2010 Sep 28.

Two cases of mycosis fungoides treated by reduced-intensity cord blood transplantation

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Two cases of mycosis fungoides treated by reduced-intensity cord blood transplantation

Hitomi Tsuji et al. J Dermatol. 2010 Dec.

Abstract

Mycosis fungoides is a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, which is clinically divided into three stages: patch, plaque and tumor. Despite a variety of treatments the prognosis is poor in advanced mycosis fungoides. Recently, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been successfully applied for such cases. We performed reduced-intensity umbilical cord blood transplantation for two advanced mycosis fungoides patients. Case 1 was a 56-year-old man and case 2 was a 30-year-old woman. Tumors of each case were refractory to conventional chemotherapy. Although radiation therapy was considerably effective, tumors relapsed after several months. Reduced-intensity umbilical cord blood transplantation was performed because case 1 had no human leukocyte antigen-identical siblings and the sibling of case 2 did not agree to be the donor. The male patient died of pulmonary failure 23 days after reduced-intensity umbilical cord blood transplantation. The case 2 patient succeeded in reduced-intensity umbilical cord blood transplantation and remained in complete/partial remission for 13 months. However, chemotherapy-resistant tumors relapsed, and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation was performed at 17 months. She died of cerebral hemorrhage 23 days after the procedure. Reduced-intensity umbilical cord blood transplantation may be included in the treatments for advanced mycosis fungoides, where graft-versus-lymphoma effect seems to be a significant factor for the success of the treatment.

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