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ReviewBest practice & research. Clinical haematology2007

Is there still a role for allogeneic stem-cell transplantation in multiple myeloma?

William I Bensinger

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Review in Best practice & research. Clinical haematology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Reduced-intensity allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for relapsed multiple myeloma.Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation · 2010
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

William I BensingerUniversity of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, D5-390, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. wbensing@fhcrc.org
Fred Hutch Cancer Center · US

Funding

Translational Bioimaging Core Shared ResourceP30CA015704 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI Marian Esvelt · 1985 to 2026
$296.4M
VIRUS-MEDIATED MYELOSUPPRESSIONP01CA018029 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI Geoffrey Roger HILL · 1985 to 2026
$128.4M
TREATMENT OF B-CELL LYMPHOMAP01CA044991 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI BALDWIN, JANELL · 1988 to 2015
$29.3M
UNRELATED AND HLA-MISMATCHED RELATED DONOR TRANSPLANTSP01HL036444 · NHLBI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI RAWLINGS, DAVID J · 1986 to 2010
$25.9M
STUDIES ON MARROW GRAFT RESISTANCEP01CA018221 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI STORB, RAINER F. · 1985 to 2001
$2.7M
SELECTED AND TRANSPLANTATION OF HUMAN HEMATOPOIETIC PROGENITOR CELLSP01CA047748 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI BERNSTEIN, IRWIN · 1989 to 1996
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite significant improvements in survival for multiple myeloma patients through autologous stem-cell transplantation (SCT) and the introduction of novel drugs, the disease remains incurable for all but a small fraction of patients. Only allogeneic SCT is potentially curative, due in part to a graft-versus-myeloma effect. High transplant-related mortality with allogeneic SCT is currently the major limitation to wider use of this potentially curative modality. Mortality can be reduced through the use of lower-intensity conditioning regimens which allow engraftment of allogeneic stem cells, but this comes at a cost of higher rates of disease progression and relapse. Promising studies to improve outcomes of allogeneic transplants include the use of more intensive non-myeloablative conditioning regimens, tandem transplants, peripheral blood cells, graft engineering to improve the graft-versus-myeloma activity while reducing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), post-transplant maintenance, and targeted conditioning therapies such as bone-seeking radioisotopes.

Indexed as

Graft vs Host DiseaseHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansLongitudinal StudiesMultiple MyelomaNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalNurse CliniciansTransplantation ConditioningTransplantation, Homologous

Identifiers

PMID18070719
PMCPMC3017399
OpenAlexW2098552300

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