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Nonmyeloablative Transplantation

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The myeloablative doses of chemotherapy and total-body irradiation (TBI) used in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (a11oHSCT) can produce considerable morbidity and mortality, particularly in older or medically infirm patients. These toxicities restrict this treatment to patients who are younger than 50 yr of age and in good medical condition (1). Patients older than 50 yr account for only 10% of those followed by the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry (2). Such a restriction is problematic in that many hematologic malignancies for which a11oHSCT may be curable typically are present after age 50 (3).

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Feinstein, L.C., Sandmaier, B.M. (2004). Nonmyeloablative Transplantation. In: Soiffer, R.J. (eds) Stem Cell Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies. Contemporary Hematology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-733-8_22

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