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Published in final edited form as: Semin Oncol. 2013 Dec;40(6):10.1053/j.seminoncol.2013.09.013. doi: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2013.09.013

Table 1.

Magnitude of Risk and Populations at Increased Risk of Therapy-related Leukemia

Study Study design Sample size/
number of
SMNs
Primary Diagnoses
Type of HCT
Magnitude of Risk and
Risk Factors
t-MDS/AML after autologous Hematopoeitic cell Transplantation
Krishnan A et al.
Blood. 2000;95:1588-
1593106
Retrospective
cohort study
Nested case-
control study
612/22
MDS/AML
Hodgkin lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Autologous HCT
Cumulative probability of
MDS/AM L : 8.6% at 6
years
Stem cell priming with VP-
16, pre-HCT radiation
associated with increased
risk of t-MDS/AML
Milligan DW et al. Br
J Haematol.
1999;106:1020-
1026107
Retrospective
cohort design
4,998/ 66
MDS/AML
Hodgkin lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Autologous HCT
5-year cumulative
probability was 4.6% for HL
and 3% for NHL.
Older age at HCT, diagnosis
of HL, exposure to TBI,
multiple HCT, years
between diagnosis were
associated with increased
risk of MDS/AML
Bhatia S, et al. Blood
1996;87:3633-910
Retrospective
cohort design
258/ 10
MDS/AML
Hematologic malignancies
Autologous HCT
6-year cumulative
probability was 13.5%.
Peripheral blood stem cell
transplantation
Age >35 years at autologous
hematopoietic cell
transplantation
Friedberg JW, et al. J
Clin Oncol
1999;17;3128-3592
Retrospective
cohort design
552/41 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Fewer number of cells
infused
t-MDS/AML after conventional therapy
Koontz MZ et al. J
Clin Oncol
2013;31:592-8108
Retrospective
cohort design
754/24 Hodgkin lymphoma 10-year cumulative
incidence ranged from 0.3%
to 5.7%.
Cumulative alkylating agent
exposure increased the risk
Bhatia S et al. N Engl
J Med 1996;334:745-
513
Retrospective
Cohort design
1380/26 Hodgkin lymphoma 14-year cumulative
probability was 2.8%
Treatment with alkylating
agents, age at diagnosis at 10
to 16 years (c/w <10 years),
recurrence of primary
disease risk, and a late stage
of disease at diagnosis were
associated with an increased
Bhatia S, et al. Blood
2002;99:4257-647
Retrospective
cohort design
8831/14 Acute lymphoblastic
leukemia
15-years cumulative
incidence was 0.3%; relapse
of primary disease was
associated with increased
risk
Bhatia S et al. Blood
2007;109:46-516
Retrospective
cohort study
design
578/11 Ewing sarcoma 5-year cumulative incidence
of 2%; increasing exposure
from 90 g/m2 to 140 g/m2;
cyclophosphamide from 9.6
to 17.6 g/m2 and
doxorubicin from 375 to 450
mg/m2 increased the risk
Travis LB et al. N
Engl J Med.
1999;340:351-79
Case-control
study design
Cases: 96/
controls: 272
Ovarian cancer Relative risk for treatment
with carboplatin and
cisplatin increased the risk in
a dose-dependent fashion
Travis LB et al. J Natl
Cancer Inst
2000;92:1165-718
Case-control
study design
Cases: 36;
controls: 106
Testicular cancer Radiation to active bone
marrow (dose-dependent
relation); cumulative dose of
cisplatin