Bone Marrow Transplantation News

September is designated as National Blood Cancer Awareness Month.

Receipt of mogamulizumab prior to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation significantly increased risk for graft-versus-host disease–related mortality in adults with T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, according to a retrospective analysis of a large database study.

Patients with pretransplantation minimal residual disease achieved comparable outcomes after receipt of a hematopoietic cell transplantation from an umbilical cord blood source or HLA–matched unrelated donor, according to retrospective study results.

The national cancer moonshot initiative’s blue ribbon panel delivered 10 recommendations to form a 5-year research blueprint to accelerate progress against cancer at the NCI’s National Cancer Advisory Board meeting.

Salvage therapy with bendamustine, gemcitabine and vinorelbine induced complete response prior to autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in a large proportion of patients with relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma, according to multicenter, open-label phase 2 study results.

The American Society for Radiation Oncology will hold its annual meeting from Sept. 25 to 28 in Boston.

Sexual activity and function appeared no different in cancer survivors than in cancer-free adults aged 50 years or older, according to results of a population-based study.

Healio.com/HemOnc has launched In the Journals Plus, a new feature that will provide busy physicians with summaries of the top articles from leading journals in hematology and oncology.

Repeated infusions of mesenchymal stromal cells reduced the incidence of chronic graft-versus-host disease in patients who underwent haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to results of a double blind randomized controlled phase 2 study.

Cytomegalovirus infection conferred no protective effect against hematologic relapse in patients with leukemia who underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to the results of an international registry study.