Stem cell transplantation for chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Should not more patients get a transplant?

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 289-297

  Jabbour, E ^a   Keating, M J ^a   Champlin, R E ^a   Khouri, I F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

CLL; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUSULFAN; CARMUSTINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; METHOTREXATE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW PURGING; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CYTOGENETICS; DONOR; GENE MUTATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; GRAFT VERSUS LEUKEMIA EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4444227593     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704593     Document Type: Short Survey

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