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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: Bone Marrow Transplant. 2016 Apr 11;51(8):1107–1112. doi: 10.1038/bmt.2016.63

Table 1.

Clinical Characteristics of Patients who received DLI

Total CML AML+ MDS Lymphoma Other Malignancies* Non Malignancies P-value
ALL

Factors N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
Total N 120 25 31 12 10 18 24

Age (years) <20 32(27%) 0 3(10%) 2(17%) 1(10%) 3(17%) 23(96%) <0.01
20-40 25(21%) 13(52%) 7(23%) 1(8%) 2(20%) 1(6%) 1(4%)
≥40 63(53%) 12(48%) 21(68%) 9(75%) 7(70%) 14(78%) 0

Sex Male 69(58%) 11(44%) 19(61%) 5(42%) 7(70%) 13(72%) 14(58%) 0.36
Female 51(43%) 14(56%) 12(39%) 7(58%) 3(30%) 5(28%) 10(42%)

Year of DLI 1990-1999 28(23%) 18(72%) 5(16%) 3(25%) 0 1(6%) 1(4%) <0.01
2000-2009 62(52%) 5(20%) 19(61%) 5(42%) 7(70%) 12(67%) 14(58%)
2010-2013 30(25%) 2(8%) 7(23%) 4(33%) 3(30%) 5(28%) 9(38%)

Pre-DLI treatment Chemotherapy 37(31%) 3(12%) 19(61%) 4(33%) 7(70%) 4(22%) 0 <0.01
None 83(69%) 22(88%) 12(39%) 8(67%) 3(30%) 14(78%) 24(100%)

Donor Type HLA matched sibling 83(69%) 16(64%) 25(81%) 8(67%) 7(70%) 13(72%) 14(58%) 0.6
Unrelated 37(31%) 9(36%) 6(19%) 4(33%) 3(30%) 5(28%) 10(42%)
Dose of DLI (CD3/kg) <1×107 27(23%) 6(24%) 6(19%) 2(17%) 0 0 13(54%) <0.01
1×107-1×108 65(54%) 14(56%) 14(45%) 7(58%) 6(60%) 13(72%) 11(46%)
≥1×108 28(23%) 5(20%) 11(36%) 3(25%) 4(40%) 5(28%) 0

Time from HCT to DLI < 200 days 45(38%) 3(12%) 13(42%) 6(50%) 3(30%) 7(39%) 13(54%) 0.05
≥ 200 days 75(63%) 22(88%) 18(58%) 6(50%) 7(70%) 11(61%) 11(46%)
*

Other malignancies include myeloproliferative disease (n= 3), multiple myeloma (n=5), plasma cell leukemia (n= 4), Juvenile CML (n= 3), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (n= 2), prolymphocytic leukemia (n= 1), and renal cell carcinoma (n= 1).