Reduced intensity allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation can induce durable remission in heavily pretreated relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma

Ann Hematol. 2011 Jul;90(7):803-8. doi: 10.1007/s00277-010-1146-3. Epub 2011 Jan 6.

Abstract

Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) can be aggressive and intractable in some cases. Patients who relapse after autologous HCT (auto-HCT) have limited treatment options. City of Hope reports our experience in the use of reduced intensity allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) in 24 heavily pretreated patients with relapsed HL, between January 2003 and December 2008. The median number of prior therapies was 5; 20/24 patients had prior auto-HCT. The conditioning regimen for all patients was fludarabine and melphalan. With a median follow-up for living patients of 39.0 months, at 2 years the overall survival (OS) was 60% (95% CI 42, 72) and the progression-free survival was 27% (95% CI 22, 32). Non-relapse mortality was 13.1% (95% CI 5.1, 31.4) at 2 years. The incidence of grade II-IV aGVHD was 45.8% and 8.3% for grade III-IV. Allo-HCT in heavily pretreated relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma is feasible, tolerable, and can induce durable clinical remissions.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Disease Progression
  • Disease-Free Survival
  • Female
  • Graft vs Host Disease / prevention & control
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / methods*
  • Hodgkin Disease / drug therapy
  • Hodgkin Disease / prevention & control*
  • Hodgkin Disease / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Melphalan / therapeutic use
  • Middle Aged
  • Myeloablative Agonists / therapeutic use
  • Recurrence
  • Transplantation Conditioning
  • Transplantation, Homologous / methods*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Vidarabine / analogs & derivatives
  • Vidarabine / therapeutic use
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Myeloablative Agonists
  • Vidarabine
  • fludarabine
  • Melphalan