Brian T Hill, Kwang Woo Ahn, Zhen-Huan Hu, Mahmoud Aljurf, Amer Beitinjaneh, Jean-Yves Cahn, Jan Cerny, Mohamed A Kharfan-Dabaja, Siddhartha Ganguly, Nilanjan Ghosh, Michael R Grunwald, Yoshihiro Inamoto, Tamila Kindwall-Keller, Taiga Nishihori, Richard F Olsson, Ayman Saad, Matthew Seftel, Sachiko Seo, Jeffrey Szer, Martin Tallman, Celalettin Ustun, Peter H Wiernik, Richard T Maziarz, Matt Kalaycio, Edwin Alyea, Uday Popat, Ronald Sobecks, Wael Saber
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a common hematologic malignancy with many highly effective therapies. Chemorefractory disease, often characterized by deletion of chromosome 17p, has historically been associated with very poor outcomes, leading to the application of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT) for medically fit patients. Although the use of allo-HCT has declined since the introduction of novel targeted therapy for the treatment of CLL, there remains significant interest in understanding factors that may influence the efficacy of allo-HCT, the only known curative treatment for CLL...
March 2018: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation