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Multicenter Study
. 2020 Aug;55(8):1540-1551.
doi: 10.1038/s41409-020-0854-0. Epub 2020 Mar 17.

Myeloablative conditioning for allo-HSCT in pediatric ALL: FTBI or chemotherapy?-A multicenter EBMT-PDWP study

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Multicenter Study

Myeloablative conditioning for allo-HSCT in pediatric ALL: FTBI or chemotherapy?-A multicenter EBMT-PDWP study

Andre Manfred Willasch et al. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2020 Aug.

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  • Correction: Myeloablative conditioning for allo-HSCT in pediatric ALL: FTBI or chemotherapy?-A multicenter EBMT-PDWP study.
    Willasch AM, Peters C, Sedláček P, Dalle JH, Kitra-Roussou V, Yesilipek A, Wachowiak J, Lankester A, Prete A, Hamidieh AA, Ifversen M, Buechner J, Kriván G, Hamladji RM, Diaz-de-Heredia C, Skorobogatova E, Michel G, Locatelli F, Bertaina A, Veys P, Dupont S, Or R, Güngör T, Aleinikova O, Sufliarska S, Sundin M, Rascon J, Kaare A, Nemet D, Fagioli F, Klingebiel TE, Styczynski J, Bierings M, Nagy K, Abecasis M, Afanasyev B, Ansari M, Vettenranta K, Alseraihy A, Chybicka A, Robinson S, Bertrand Y, Kupesiz A, Ghavamzadeh A, Campos A, Pichler H, Dalissier A, Labopin M, Corbacioglu S, Balduzzi A, Galimard JE, Bader P; EBMT Paediatric Diseases Working Party. Willasch AM, et al. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2021 Oct;56(10):2615. doi: 10.1038/s41409-021-01424-5. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2021. PMID: 34413474 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

Although most children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) receive fractionated total body irradiation (FTBI) as myeloablative conditioning (MAC) for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT), it is an important matter of debate if chemotherapy can effectively replace FTBI. To compare outcomes after FTBI versus chemotherapy-based conditioning (CC), we performed a retrospective EBMT registry study. Children aged 2-18 years after MAC for first allo-HSCT of bone marrow (BM) or peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) from matched-related (MRD) or unrelated donors (UD) in first (CR1) or second remission (CR2) between 2000 and 2012 were included. Propensity score weighting was used to control pretreatment imbalances of the observed variables. 3.054 patients were analyzed. CR1 (1.498): median follow-up (FU) after FTBI (1.285) and CC (213) was 6.8 and 6.1 years. Survivals were not significantly different. CR2 (1.556): median FU after FTBI (1.345) and CC (211) was 6.2 years. Outcomes after FTBI were superior as compared with CC with regard to overall survival (OS), leukemia-free survival (LFS), relapse incidence (RI), and nonrelapse mortality (NRM). However, we must emphasize the preliminary character of the results of this retrospective "real-world-practice" study. These findings will be prospectively assessed in the ALL SCTped 2012 FORUM trial.

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Fig. 1. Survival by conditioning regimen.
a Outcomes of patients in CR1. b Outcomes of patients in CR2. CC chemotherapy-based conditioning, CR1 first complete remission, CR2 second complete remission, FTBI fractionated total body irradiation, LFS leukemia-free survival, NRM nonrelapse mortality, OS overall survival, RI relapse incidence.

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