Managing Hodgkin lymphoma relapsing after autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation: A not-so-good cancer after all!

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 599-606

  Kharfan Dabaja, M A ^a,b   Hamadani, M ^c   Sibai, H ^d   Savani, B N ^e  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation; reduced intensity conditioning; relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma

Indexed keywords

BENDAMUSTINE; BRENTUXIMAB VEDOTIN; BUSULFAN; CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; EVEROLIMUS; FLUDARABINE; GEMCITABINE; LENALIDOMIDE; MELPHALAN; MOCETINOSTAT; NAVELBINE; PANOBINOSTAT; RITUXIMAB; VORINOSTAT;

ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DONOR; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HAPLOTYPE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; T CELL DEPLETION; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RECURRENT DISEASE;

HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 84900310741     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2013.226     Document Type: Review

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