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Sweetenham et al.<br />

Treatment options for patients who relapse after autoSCT are very limited, <strong>and</strong><br />

the survival after relapse is the same for patients with localized <strong>and</strong> distant relapses.<br />

This is partly due to the fact that sites of localized relapse have often been<br />

irradiated earlier in the course of the disease.<br />

New treatment strategies are required for patients who relapse after autoSCT,<br />

irrespective of the site of relapse, since prognosis is equally poor for all patients.<br />

Local therapy has a very limited role, <strong>and</strong> novel systemic therapies should be used.<br />

Preliminary studies have shown responses to a number of novel agents including<br />

monoclonal antibodies <strong>and</strong> cytokines. The use of allogeneic BMT, including<br />

matched unrelated donor <strong>transplantation</strong>, has been reported to produce long-term<br />

disease-free survival in a small proportion of patients relapsing after autoSCT, but<br />

has a very high (>40%) regimen-related mortality. This may be a suitable setting<br />

in which to consider the use of novel "mini-transplant" strategies.<br />

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br />

We wish to acknowledge all of the EBMT centers who have contributed<br />

patients to this study. In addition, we wish to acknowledge the contribution of the<br />

medical <strong>and</strong> nursing staff on the Transplant Unit at the University of Southampton,<br />

U.K., for their expert care of these patients.<br />

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