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lowed by ABMT than refractory disease at the time of ABMT . Surprisingly the
use of TBI and/or purged autografts did not have any impact on outcome. Because
this is a registry analysis, this may also be explained by selection of patients
transplanted.
Because of the natural behaviour of this disease longer follow-up is necessary.
However, we conclude that the data are very promising and warrant a randomized
trial comparing purged vs. unpurged BMT with standard chemotherapy.
The EBMT lymphoma working party has developed this randomized study
in cooperation with transplant centers in Scandinavia, England, France, Germany,
Italy and the Netherlands.
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3. Vose J. et al. Autologous bone marrow transplantation. Proceedings of the Fifth
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4. Freedman A.S. et al. Blood 77:2524-2529,1991.
5. Philip T. et al. New England Journal of Medicine 316:1493-1498,1987.
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