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42 Chapter 1: AML<br />

of the EBMT. 32<br />

An update of this report on 173 reported patients was presented at<br />

the Dallas meeting in 1998 (Ninth International Symposium on Autologous Blood<br />

<strong>and</strong> Marrow Transplantation). The overall survival at 2 years of the 126 patients<br />

transplanted in first CR was 38%, the DFS was 33%, <strong>and</strong> the actuarial relapse rate<br />

was 55%. Nineteen patients were transplanted for MDS that had not progressed to<br />

AML before autoBMT. The actuarial DFS at 2 years after ABMT was 40%, <strong>and</strong><br />

the relapse rate 58%. Thirty-nine MDS patients had progressed to AML before<br />

chemotherapy <strong>and</strong> autoBMT. DFS of these patients was 30%, <strong>and</strong> the relapse rate<br />

68% (Table 1). Twenty-one patients were transplanted for MDS or AML that had<br />

developed after treatment with chemotherapy for other malignancies or<br />

autoimmune diseases. Actuarial DFS of these patients was 36%, <strong>and</strong> the relapse<br />

rate 60%. 32<br />

Patients 40 years. This difference could be explained partly by the higher treatment-related<br />

mortality of 39% in the older age group compared with 16% in the patients

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