Hematopoietic cell transplantation-comorbidity index and Karnofsky performance status are independent predictors of morbidity and mortality after allogeneic nonmyeloablative hematopoietic cell transplantation

Cancer

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1992-2001

  Sorror, Mohamed ^a   Storer, Barry ^a,b   Sandmaier, Brenda M ^a,b   Maloney, David G ^a,b   Chauncey, Thomas R ^a,b,c   Langston, Amelia ^d   Maziarz, Richard T ^e   Pulsipher, Michael ^f   McSweeney, Peter A ^g   Storb, Rainer ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^g Rocky Mountain Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation; Hematologic malignancies; Hematopoietic cell transplantation specific comorbidity index; Karnofsky performance status; Nonmyeloablative conditioning; Nonrelapse mortality; Post transplantation toxicities

Indexed keywords

FLUDARABINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COMORBIDITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONMYELOABLATIVE STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 42449142954     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23375     Document Type: Article

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