Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Perales MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7012481 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Perales Miguel-Angel MA Tomlinson Benjamin B Zhang Mei-Jie MJ St Martin Andrew A Beitinjaneh Amer A Gibson John J Hogan William W Kekre Natasha N Lazarus Hillard H Marks David D McGuirk Joseph J Romee Rizwan R Solh Melhem M Wagner John E JE Weisdorf Daniel J DJ de Lima Marcos M Eapen Mary M
Haematologica 20200131 2
We sought to study whether survival after haploidentical transplantation is comparable to that after matched unrelated donor transplantation for 822 patients aged 50-75 years with acute myeloid leukemia in first or second complete remission. One hundred and ninety-two patients received grafts from haploidentical donors (sibling 25%; offspring 75%) and 631 patients from matched unrelated donors aged 18-40 years. Patients' and disease characteristics of the two groups were similar except that reci ...[more]