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In AML patients, pretransplant MRD status predicts auto-SCT outcome

Published in Blood Weekly, December 11th, 2003

Pretransplant MRD status in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients predicts the outcome of high-dose chemotherapy and stem cell autotransplantation.

In a recent study from Italy, "A total of 31 adult patients with AML entered in the EORTC/GIMEMA AML-10 trial who received autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) after induction and consolidation chemotherapy, were prospectively evaluated for minimal residual disease (MRD) by multidimensional flow cytometry (MFC)."

"Using a cutoff level of 3.5 x 10-4 leukemic cells pre-ASCT, 12 patients (39%) were stratified to MRD high-risk group and 19 (61%) into MRD low-risk group," explained A....

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