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- as far as relapses are concerned: resistant relapses are still a bad indication<br />

for marrow transplantation and sensitive relapses are probably the best candidate<br />

for this modality of therapy. Sensitive relapses are patients where 1st CR is<br />

absolutely demonstrated and include only CR and PR after two courses of rescue<br />

conventional chemotherapy. In this setting the results are now between 40<br />

and 60% long term survival at 5 years and the current PARMA randomized<br />

study is trying to demonstrate definitive interest of this modality of therapy.<br />

I want to stress again that it is somewhat unethical not to put patients in the<br />

PARMA protocol because we are not able yet to demonstrate the utility of this<br />

therapy. Some insurance did not reimburse in the States this modality, which is<br />

probably the best one, and we need very few patients now to complete the<br />

PARMA study with a definitive conclusion.<br />

- last point: primary refractory patients are still very bad candidates for marrow<br />

transplantation.<br />

In this field, allegeneic and autologous bone marrow transplantation are<br />

equivalent despite two reports that allegeneic decreases the number of relapses.<br />

A lot of published papers (especially from the Nebraska team) show that peripheral<br />

blood stem cell is also equivalent to autologous marrow transplantation in<br />

this setting.<br />

CONCLUSION:<br />

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is still one of the major fields for bone marrow<br />

transplantation and we all hope that in the near future several randomized studies<br />

will definitively establish this therapy in the field.<br />

250 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION

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