Reduced intensity conditioning regimen with fludarabine, busulfan, and low-dose TBI (Flu-BU2-TBI): clinical efficacy in high-risk patients

Am J Hematol. 2010 Apr;85(4):243-8. doi: 10.1002/ajh.21630.

Abstract

Reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimens are widely used in allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). In this study, we retrospectively investigated the clinical outcomes of RIC with fludarabine (Flu; 180 mg/m(2)), intravenous busulfan (BU; 6.4 mg/kg) or oral BU (8 mg/kg), and low-dose total body irradiation (TBI; 4 Gy) (Flu-BU2-TBI) in 66 patients (median age: 54.5 years) with various hematological malignancies. Thirty-eight patients (58%) were high-risk patients (median age: 56 years). The overall survival rate at 2 years of the high-risk patients was 64.5%, which was comparable to the survival rate of 70.9% in standard-risk patients (P = 0.68). The relapse rates at 2 years in the standard-risk and high-risk patients were 16 and 28%, respectively, and day 100 treatment-related mortality rates were 0 and 6%, respectively. The Flu-BU2-TBI regimen for high-risk patients showed therapeutic effects equivalent to those for standard-risk patients and favorable outcomes compared with those of other previous RIC regimens.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aging
  • Busulfan / administration & dosage
  • Busulfan / therapeutic use*
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Myeloablative Agonists / therapeutic use*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Risk Factors
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Survival Analysis
  • Transplantation Conditioning / methods*
  • Transplantation, Homologous
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vidarabine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Vidarabine / therapeutic use
  • Whole-Body Irradiation / methods*

Substances

  • Myeloablative Agonists
  • Vidarabine
  • Busulfan
  • fludarabine