Prevention of Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Patients Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation

Summary

RATIONALE: Bone marrow transplantation may be able to replace immune cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy or radiation therapy used to kill tumor cells. Sometimes the transplanted cells can make an immune response against the body's normal tissues. Stem cells that have been treated in the laboratory to remove lymphocytes may prevent this from happening. PURPOSE: Clinical trial to prevent graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation.

Timeline

Start

1997-03

Primary completion

2004-05

Completion

2004-05

Publications

• Results O'Donnell PV, Jones RJ, Vogelsang GB, Seber A, Ambinder RF, Flinn I, Miller C, Marcellus DC, Griffin C, Abrams R, Braine HG, Grever M, Hess AD, Piantadosi S, Noga SJ. CD34+ stem cell augmentation of elutriated allogeneic bone marrow grafts: results of a phase II clinical trial of engraftment and graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis in high-risk hematologic malignancies. Bone Marrow Transplant. 1998 Nov;22(10):947-55. doi: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701476.

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