Stem Cell Transplantation
Unrelated enriched grafts carry high risk, even with donor lymphocyte infusions
Published in Cancer Weekly, September 17th, 2002
Martin Bornhauser and colleagues at Carl Gustav Carus University in Dresden assessed the benefits and risks of unrelated, CD34-selected peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) grafts for leukemia and lymphoma patients.
The researchers found that these grafts were associated with high rates of infection and other complications and that donor lymphocyte infusions (DLI) offers limited protection against these developments.
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