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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2009 May;15(5):580–588. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2009.01.018

Table 1. Patients, diseases, and transplant characteristics (n=282).

Characteristic Value
Median patient age, years (range) 54 (5-74)
Recipient gender (M/F), # pts (%) 182 (65) / 100 (35)
Median donor age, years (range) 45 (19-78)
Donor gender (M/F), # pts (%) 147 (52) / 135 (48)
Diagnosis, # pts (%)
 Acute myeloid leukemia 63 (22.3)
 Acute lymphoblastic leukemia 8 (2.8)
 Chronic myeloid leukemia 15 (5.3)
 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia 33 (11.7)
 Myelodysplastic syndrome 31 (11.0)
 Multiple myeloma 44 (15.6)
 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 52 (18.4)
 Hodgkin disease 25 (8.9)
 Waldenström macroglobulinemia 3 (1.0)
 Renal cell carcinoma 7 (2.5)
 Cervical cancer 1 (0.4)
Disease risk, # pts (%)
 Indolent* 123 (44)
 Aggressive 159 (56)
Tandem autologous/allogeneic HCT, # pts (%) 41 (14.5%)
Donor, # pts (%)
 Related
 HLA-identical 152 (53.9)
 1 HLA-antigen mismatched 1 (0.4)
 Unrelated
  10/10 HLA allele-matched 95 (33.7)
  1 HLA-allele mismatched 16 (5.7)
  1 HLA-antigen mismatched 13 (4.6)
  1 HLA-antigen + 1 HLA allele mismatched 5 (1.8)
Numbers of inhibitory genes on donor NK cell KIR, # pts (%)
 Unknown 30 (11)
 2 6 (2)
 3 91 (32)
 4 104 (37)
 5 51 (18)
Number of activating genes on donor NK cell KIR, # pts (%)
 Unknown 53 (18.8)
 1 77 (27.3)
 2 46 (16.3)
 3 21 (7.4)
 4 37 (13.1)
 5 33 (11.7)
 6 15 (5.3)
Hematopoietic stem cell source, # pts (%)
 G-PBMC 271 (96)
 Bone marrow 11 (4)
Conditioning regimen, # pts (%)
 2 Gy TBI 54 (19)
 2 Gy TBI + fludarabine 228 (81)
Cell dose, median (range) (× 106/kg recipient)
 CD34+ cells 7.8 (0.8-42.6)
 T cells 312 (16-934)
Sustained engraftment / graft rejection, # pts (%) 264 (94) / 18 (6)
Acute GVHD, # pts (%)
 Grade 0 /1 113 (40.1)
2 127 (45.0)
3 31 (11.0)
4 11 (3.9)
Chronic GVHD, # pts (%)
 No 135 (48)
 Yes 147 (52)
3-year overall survival (%) 50
3-year progression-free survival (%) 37
*

Defined as acute myeloid leukemia in first complete remission, acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first complete remission, myelodysplastic syndrome-refractory anemia, chronic myeloid leukemia in first chronic phase, chronic lymphoblastic leukemia, low-grade non Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma in partial or complete remission, and Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia.

All other diagnoses.

M, male; F, female; R, recipient; D, donor; G-PBMC, G-CSF-mobilized peripheral blood mononuclear cells; TBI, total body irradiation; GVHD, graft-versus-host disease; KIR, killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor.