Transplant
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Younger children can safely visit HSCT recipients (sometimes)
Children under 12 are welcome – with suitable precautions – to visit patients at some transplant centers, but personae non grata at others.
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HIV free 30 months after stem cell transplant, is the London patient cured?
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Stored CD34 cells for multiple myeloma patients largely unused
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No reduction in oral mucositis with folinic acid post transplant
ORLANDO – Folinic acid, a.k.a. leucovorin, offered no benefit for reducing methotrexate-induced oral mucositis in patients receiving GVHD...
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Safer CAR uses modified NK cells for advanced CLL, NHL
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Survival for older AML patients better with HSCT from unrelated donors
“Our findings lend support to our hypothesis that a young [matched unrelated donor] should be the donor of choice when available,” reported the...
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CAR T-cell therapy may worsen mental health in some patients
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Several factors may drive recent improvements in allo-HCT outcomes
Patients transplanted in recent years were older and sicker at baseline but had better outcomes than did patients transplanted in the mid-2000s....
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Myeloma patients over age 70 can benefit from auto-HC transplant
ORLANDO – Researchers said all myeloma patients should be referred a transplant center, regardless of age.
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First NCCN guideline on hematopoietic cell transplantation focuses on GVHD
Diagnosis and management of both acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease is at the core of the recommendations.
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Hematopoietic cell transplant offers realistic cure in secondary AML
The observational trial showed that survival was significantly higher with transplant than with chemotherapy consolidation therapy in patients...