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ArticleLeukemia2024

How risky is a second allogeneic stem cell transplantation?

Olaf Penack, Mouad Abouqateb, Christophe Peczynski, William Boreland, Nicolaus Kröger, Robert Zeiser, Fabio Ciceri, Thomas Schroeder, Peter Dreger, Jakob Passweg and 8 more

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Article in Leukemia, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Second allogeneic transplants in children: twelve years of experienceBiomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2026
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  5. With BiTEs at the kiddie table, where do CARs come in for pediatric B-ALL?Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program · 2025
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  10. Is There (Still) a Place for Sequential Conditioning?Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Olaf PenackMedical Clinic, Department for Haematology, Oncology and Tumorimmunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. olaf.penack@charite.de.ORCID 0000-0003-4876-802X
Mouad AbouqatebEBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.
Christophe PeczynskiEBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.
William BorelandEBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.
Nicolaus KrögerDepartment of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5103-9966
Robert ZeiserDepartment of Medicine I, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6565-3393
Fabio CiceriIRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele s.r.l, Milano, Italy.
Thomas SchroederUniversity Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Peter DregerUniversity Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7429-8570
Jakob PasswegUniversity Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7092-3351
Johannes ScheteligUniversity Hospital TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Matthias StelljesUniversity of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Igor Wolfgang BlauMedical Clinic, Department for Haematology, Oncology and Tumorimmunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Georg-Nikolaus FrankeMedical Clinic and Policinic 1, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8239-002X
Katarina RiesnerMedical Clinic, Department for Haematology, Oncology and Tumorimmunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Hélène SchoemansEBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7568-8239
Ivan MoiseevEBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.
Zinaida PericEBMT Transplant Complications Working Party, Paris, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is no consensus on second allogeneic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT) indications in patients with hematologic malignancies relapsing after a first alloSCT. In historic publications, a very high non-relapse mortality (NRM) has been described, arguing against performing a second alloSCT. We analysed the outcome of 3356 second alloSCTs performed 2011-21 following a hematologic malignancy relapse. Outcomes at two years after second alloSCT were: NRM 22%, relapse incidence 50%, overall survival 38%, and progression-free survival 28%. Key risk factors for increased NRM were: older age, low performance score, high disease-risk-index, early relapse after the first alloSCT, unrelated/haploidentical donor, and GVHD before second alloSCT. Any type of GVHD after first alloSCT was also important risk factor for acute GVHD and chronic GVHD after second alloSCT. There was a preferential use of a different donor (80%) at second alloSCT from first alloSCT. However, in multivariate analysis, the use of the same alloSCT donor for second alloSCT vs. a different donor was not associated with any of the survival or GVHD endpoints. We show considerably improved outcome as compared to historic reports. These current data support a wider use of second alloSCT and provide risk factors for NRM that need to be considered.

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Graft vs Host DiseaseHematologic NeoplasmsHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationTransplantation, HomologousAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalRecurrenceRisk FactorsSurvival RateYoung Adult

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PMID38918561
PMCPMC11286516

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