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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2009 Aug 3;15(10):1277–1287. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2009.06.005

Table 5.

Reported causes of death of patients ≥ 18 year receiving HLA-identical sibling donor transplants for CML in first chronic phase, reported to the CIBMTR, 1990–2004.

Non Smokers Smokers
Low dose High dose
Causes N (%) N (%) N (%)
GVHD 132 (24) 32 (23) 9 (18)
IPN 95 (18) 24 (17) 9 (18)
Infection 103 (19) 31 (22) 13 (25)
New malignancy 5 (1) 5 (4) 1 (2)
Organ failure 53 (10) 14 (10) 9 (18)
Other cause 80 (15) 20 (14) 8 (16)
Primary disease 73 (13) 15 (11) 2 (4)