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Trial reportBone marrow transplantation2019

Impact of graft-versus-host disease on relapse and survival after allogeneic stem cell transplantation for pediatric leukemia.

Motohiro Kato, Mio Kurata, Junya Kanda, Koji Kato, Daisuke Tomizawa, Kazuko Kudo, Nao Yoshida, Kenichiro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Shimada, Jiro Inagaki and 12 more

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Trial report in Bone marrow transplantation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Motohiro KatoChildren's Cancer Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan. katom-tky@umin.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5145-1774
Mio KurataJapanese Data Center for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Nagoya, Japan.
Junya KandaDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6704-3633
Koji KatoDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Children's Medical Center, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
Daisuke TomizawaChildren's Cancer Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1520-7007
Kazuko KudoDepartment of Pediatrics, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Japan.
Nao YoshidaDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Children's Medical Center, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
Kenichiro WatanabeDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan.
Hiroyuki ShimadaDepartment of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Jiro InagakiDepartment of Pediatrics, National Kyushu Cancer Center, Fukuoka, Japan.
Katsuyoshi KohDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, Saitama Children's Medical Center, Saitama, Japan.
Hiroaki GotoDivision of Hemato-oncology/Regenerative Medicine, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
Keisuke KatoDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, Ibaraki Children's Hospital, Mito, Japan.
Yuko ChoDepartment of Pediatrics, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.
Yuki YuzaDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.
Atsushi OgawaDepartment of Pediatrics, Niigata Cancer Center Hospital, Niigata, Japan.
Keiko OkadaDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Masami InoueDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Izumi, Japan.
Yoshiko HashiiDepartment of Pediatrics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan.
Takanori TeshimaDepartment of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
Makoto MurataDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Yoshiko AtsutaJapanese Data Center for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Nagoya, Japan.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) occasionally leads to morbidity and mortality but is thought to reduce the risk of relapses in patients with a hematological malignancy. However, information on the effect of GVHD in pediatric leukemia is limited. Using a nationwide registry, we retrospectively analyzed 1526 children who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation for leukemia. Grades 0-I acute GVHD were associated with a higher relapse rate at three years after transplantation, at 25.4 and 24.3%, respectively, than grades II, III, or IV acute GVHD at 18.9%, 21.2%, and 2.6%, respectively. In contrast, the overall survival curve of the grades 0 and I GVHD groups (79.0% and 79.5%, respectively) approximated that of the grade II GVHD group (76.3%), and the probability of survival was worst in the severe GVHD groups (66.9% for grade III and 42.5% for grade IV). Chronic GVHD also reduced the relapse risk but conferred no survival advantage. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia was more sensitive to acute GVHD than acute myeloid leukemia (AML) while AML was more sensitive to chronic GVHD. Our study reproduced the preventive effects of GVHD against pediatric leukemia relapses but failed to demonstrate a significant survival advantage.

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Graft vs Host DiseaseLeukemiaStem Cell TransplantationAdolescentAllograftsChildChild, PreschoolChronic DiseaseDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleHematologic NeoplasmsHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleRecurrence

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