Long-term follow-up of a comparison of nonmyeloablative allografting with autografting for newly diagnosed myeloma.

ABSTRACT: Before the introduction of new drugs, we designed a trial where treatment of newly diagnosed myeloma patients was based on the presence or absence of HLA-identical siblings. First-line treatments included a cytoreductive autograft followed by a nonmyeloablative allograft or a second melphalan-based autograft. Here, we report long-term clinical outcomes and discuss them in the light of the recent remarkable advancements in the treatment of myeloma. After a median follow-up of 7 years, median overall survival (OS) was not reached (P = .001) and event-free survival (EFS) was 2.8 years (P = .005) for 80 patients with HLA-identical siblings and 4.25 and 2.4 years for 82 without, respectively. Median OS was not reached (P = .02) and EFS was 39 months (P = .02) in the 58 patients who received a n

SUBMITTER: Giaccone L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3251223 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature