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. 2005 Feb 8;105(11):4215–4222. doi: 10.1182/blood-2005-01-0035

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of patients undergoing autologous hematopoietic-cell transplantation for hematologic malignancies and surviving at least 2 years

Primary diagnoses
Variables Entire cohort AML ALL NHL HD
Total no. of patients 854 158 59 392 245
Median age at HCT, y (range) 36.5 (0.6-69.1) 34.8 (0.6-62.9) 11.1 (2.5-55.7) 43.7 (2.0-69.1) 30.5 (7.2-56.9)
Age at HCT, y (%)
   Less than 18 91 (10.7) 28 (17.7) 36 (61.0) 9 (2.3) 18 (7.3)
   18 to 45 505 (59.1) 75 (47.5) 21 (35.6) 209 (53.3) 200 (81.6)
   More than 45 258 (30.2) 55 (34.8) 2 (3.4) 174 (44.4) 27 (11.1)
Sex: male (%) 506 (59.3) 88 (55.7) 47 (79.7) 230 (58.7) 141 (57.6)
Source of stem cells, no. (%)
   Bone marrow 269 (31.5) 69 (43.7) 55 (93.2) 81 (20.7) 64 (26.1)
   Peripheral blood stem cells 456 (53.4) 62 (39.2) 3 (5.1) 259 (66.1) 132 (53.9)
   BM + PBSCs 129 (15.1) 27 (17.1) 1 (1.7) 52 (13.2) 49 (20.0)
Race/ethnicity, no. (%)
   White 692 (81) 122 (77) 48 (81) 321 (82) 201 (82)
   Hispanic 104 (12.2) 23 (15) 5 (8) 46 (12) 30 (12)
   Other 58 (6.8) 13 (8) 6 (10) 25 (6) 14 (6)
Year of HCT (%)
   1980 to 1989 167 (19.5) 23 (14.6) 40 (67.7) 49 (12.5) 0 (22.4)
   1990 to 1994 351 (41.1) 67 (42.4) 14 (23.7) 170 (43.3) 100 (40.8)
   1995 to 1999 336 (39.3) 68 (43.0) 5 (8.5) 173 (44.1) 90 (36.7)
Years since HCT (range) 7.6 (2.0-20.5) 8.3 (2.3-16.8) 10.3 (2.0-20.5) 7.3 (2.0-18.4) 7 (2.0-18.1)
Conditioning regimen (%)
   Total body irradiation 575 (67.6) 124 (79.5) 58 (98.3) 314 (80.3) 79 (32.2)
   Cyclophosphamide 828 (97.3) 152 (97.4) 45 (76.3) 386 (98.7) 245 (100)
   Busulfan 33 (3.9) 32 (20.5) 1 (1.7) 0 (0) 0 (0)
   Etoposide 635 (74.6) 100 (64.1) 6 (10.2) 286 (73.1) 243 (99.2)
   Carmustine 234 (27.5) 0 (0) 0 (0) 71 (18.2) 163 (66.5)
Disease status at HCT (%)
   Standard risk 498 (58.5) 153 (96.8) 48 (81.4) 219 (55.9) 78 (32.1)
   High risk 354 (41.5) 5 (3.2) 11 (18.6) 173 (44.1) 165 (67.9)
Institution (%)
   City of Hope 553 (64.8) 103 (65.2) 6 (10.2) 277 (70.7) 167 (68.2)
   University of Minnesota 301 (35.2) 55 (34.8) 53 (89.8) 115 (29.3) 78 (31.8)
No. of late deaths (%) 251 (29.4) 24 (15.2) 24 (40.7) 113 (28.8) 90 (36.7)
   2 to 5 y after HCT 192 (76.5) 16 (66.7) 19 (79.2) 84 (74.3) 73 (81.1)
   6 to 10 y after HCT 51 (20.3) 7 (29.2) 4 (16.7) 25 (22.1) 15 (16.7)
   11 to 15 y after HCT 8 (3.2) 1 (4.2) 1 (4.2) 4 (3.5) 2 (2.2)
Age at death, y (range) 42.5 (5.4-72.7) 46.9 (5.5-66.2) 19.6 (5.4-44.2) 51.5 (13.7-72.7) 36.1 (16.1-58.9)

AML indicates acute myeloid leukemia; ALL, acute lymphoblastic leukemia; NHL, non-Hodgkin lymphoma; HD, Hodgkin disease; BM, bone marrow; PBSCs, peripheral blood stem cells.