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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 28.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008 Mar;14(3):282–289. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2007.12.488

Table 2.

Study outcomes

End point All patients
(n=90)
MRD
(n=47)
UCB
(n=43)
P-value1
3-year PFS (95% CI) 32% (22-43) 30% (16-44) 34% (19-48) 0.98
3-year OS (95% CI) 39% (28-50) 43% (29-58) 34% (17-50) 0.57
Sustained donor engraftment at 42 days (95% CI)2,3 95% (93-97) 100% 89% (80-99) 0.05
Grade 2-4 acute GVHD (95% CI)2 45% (34-47) 42% (27-57) 49% (32-65) 0.20
Chronic GVHD at 1 year (95% CI)2 29% (18-40) 40% (23-56) 17% (5-29) 0.02
180-day TRM (95% CI)2 26% (16-35) 23% (11-36) 28% (14-41) 0.36

MRD — matched related donor; UCB — unrelated umbilical cord blood donor; TRM — transplant related mortality; GVHD — graft-versus-host disease; PFS — progression free survival; OS — overall survival; CI — confidence intervals

1

P-value for comparison between MRD and UCB

2

Cumulative incidence

3

Ten patients (MRD=5, UCB=5) were censored for engraftment analysis because of death prior to analysis for donor chimerism