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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 6.

Reported causes of death of patients ≥ 18 year receiving unrelated 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 60 (21) 18 (24) 7 (33)
IPN 59 (20) 9 (12) 5 (24)
Infection 79 (27) 17 (23) 2 (10)
New malignancy 3 (1) 1 (1) 1 (5)
Organ failure 27 (9) 14 (19) 2 (10)
Other cause 43 (15) 8 (11) 3 (14)
Primary disease 20 (7) 8 (11) 1 (5)