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SUBMITTER: Sauter CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5716350 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 20140215 6
Whether chemosensitivity, as determined by positron emission tomography using fluorine-18-deoxyglucose (FDG-PET), is a requirement for successful allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) has yet to be established. We analyzed 88 patients with B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) for event-free (EFS) and overall survival (OS) according to computed tomography (CT) and FDG-PET criteria before uniform nonmyeloablative (NMA) allo-SCT. Patients who were chemosensitive, according to ...[more]