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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2011 Sep 8;18(5):708–715. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2011.08.022

Table 2.

Baseline patient characteristics for patients alive and disease-free at 12 months (landmark analysis) based on driving time to DF/BWCC.

Variable Total patients N. (%)a ≤40 minutes 41-159 minutes ≥160 minutes p valueb

Number of patients 909 245 440 225

Driving time (median, range in minutes) 73 (3-356)

Number of visits between day 100 and day 365 (median, range) 11 (0-38) 14 (0-38) 11 (0-36) 8 (0-25) <0.0001

Age (years) (median, range) 46 (17-72) 47 (18-72) 45 (17-71) 46 (18-67) 0.15

Sex
    Male 511 (56) 150 (61) 241 (55) 120 (54) 0.17

Race 0.0002
    Caucasian 844 (93) 215 (88) 414 (94) 215 (96)
    Black/African-American 21 (2) 9 (4) 8 (2) 4 (2)
    Asian 12 (1) 10 (4) 1 (0) 1 (0)
    Other/unknown 32 (4) 11 (4) 17 (4) 4 (2)

Median household income (median, range in thousands of US$) 52.1 (16.4-154.4) 61.3 (26.8-154.4) 51.7 (16.4-107.9) 42.6 (25.2-140.7) <0.0001

Disease 0.16
    AML 280 (31) 85 (35) 125 (28) 70 (31)
    ALL 83 (9) 19 (8) 43 (10) 21 (9)
    CML 158 (17) 36 (15) 83 (19) 39 (17)
    CLL 67 (7) 16 (7) 32 (7) 19 (8)
    MDS 92 (10) 24 (10) 41 (9) 27 (12)
    MPDc 12 (1) 3 (1) 5 (1) 4 (2)
    Low grade NHLh 40 (4) 9 (4) 23 (5) 8 (4)
    High grade NHLi 79 (9) 34 (14) 34 (8) 11 (5)
    HL 33 (4) 6 (2) 18 (4) 9 (4)
    MM 23 (3) 1 (0) 16 (4) 6 (3)
    Benign hematologic disease 39 (4) 11 (4) 18 (4) 10 (4)
    Otherd 3 (0) 1 (0) 2 (0) 0 (0)

Stage at SCT 0.74
    CR1/CP1 346 (38) 90 (37) 166 (38) 90 (40)
    CR>1/CP>1 130 (14) 36 (15) 68 (15) 16 (12)
    Induction Failure 109 (12) 33 (13) 53 (12) 23 (10)
    PR/AP 143 (16) 36 (15) 75 (17) 32 (14)
    Relapse/BC 74 (8) 20 (8) 31 (7) 23 (10)
    Untreated 107 (12) 30 (12) 47 (11) 30 (13)

Treatment on protocol 0.28
    Yes 450 (50) 111 (45) 222 (50) 117 (52)

ECOG performance status at SCTe 0.46
    0 241 (50) 64 (46) 119 (52) 58 (50)
    1 200 (42) 64 (46) 86 (38) 50 (43)
    2-3 39 (8) 10 (7) 22 (10) 7 (6)

Donor match 0.45
    MRD 428 (47) 109 (44) 206 (47) 113 (50)
    Non-MRD 481 (53) 136 (56) 234 (53) 111 (50)
        MUD 372 (41) 98 (40) 184 (42) 90 (40)
        MM 109 (12) 38 (16) 50 (11) 21 (9)
            Mismatched URD 97 (11) 35 (14) 44 (10) 18 (8)
            Mismatched relative 12 (1) 3 (1) 6 (1) 3 (1)

Graft source 0.16
    PB 543 (60) 156 (64) 254 (58) 133 (59)
    BM 319 (35) 72 (29) 164 (37) 83 (37)
    PB+BM 4 (0) 1 (0) 1 (0) 2 (1)
        UCB 43 (5) 16 (7) 21 (5) 6 (3)

Conditioning 0.049
    NMA/RIC 296 (33) 95 (39) 131 (30) 70 (31)

GVHD prophylaxis 0.24
    CnI +/- Mtx 406 (45) 100 (41) 197 (45) 109 (49)
    CnI + Rapa +/- Mtx 355 (39) 105 (43) 174 (40) 76 (34)
    CnI + MMF 32 (4) 13 (5) 13 (3) 6 (3)
    T-cell depletion 104 (11) 25 (10) 48 (11) 31 (14)
    Other 12 (1) 2 (1) 8 (2) 2 (1)

CMV serostatusf 0.52
    Recipient or donor + 522 (59) 146 (61) 253 (59) 98 (56)

Sex matchingg 0.042
    Mismatched 420 (46) 128 (52) 186 (42) 106 (48)

GVHD cum incidence
    Acute GVHD 2-4 24% 26% 24% 23% 0.6
    Acute GVHD 3-4 7% 6% 7% 8% 0.7
    Chronic GVHD 52% 57% 51% 48% 0.062

Year of SCT (median, range) 2004 (1996-2009) 2004 (1996-2009) 2004 (1996-2009) 2004 (1996-2009) 0.070

Months of follow-up for survivors (median, range) 48 (12-163) 48 (12-150) 49 (12-148) 48 (12-163) 0.87
a

Percentages may not add to 100 because of rounding

b

By Kruskal-Wallis test for continuous variables and chi-square test for discrete variables.

c

Including mixed MPD/MDS

e

Data missing on 429 patients

f

Recipient or donor status missing on 20 patients

g

Sex donor missing on 2 patients

h

Low grade NHL includes:Follicular lymphoma, lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, marginal zone lymphoma.

i

High grade NHL includes all histologies not found in low grade NHL