Table 1 Reported cases of patients with WM who underwent allo-SCT

From: Long-term graft-versus-Waldenström macroglobulinemia effect following reduced intensity conditioning allogeneic stem cell transplantation

Reference

Study type

Patients

GVT (suggested)

Survival

Relapse

TRM

Ueda et al.7

Case report

n=1 (RIC)

Yes (cGVHD)

CR at 5 months

No

No

Martino et al.8

Case report

n=2 (MA)

Yes (cGVHD)

PR at 9 years and CR at 3 years

No

No

Tournilhac et al.3

Retrospective study

n=10 MA=9 RIC=1 (all heavily pre-treated)

Yes (DLI efficacy)

60% (3–76 months FU) all in CR

No

40% (all were in progression)

Anagnostpoulos et al.5

Retrospective study

n=3 chemo-resistant (MA=2; RIC=1)

NA

No CR achieved; two MA=death at 1 month and 6 months of GVHD; one RIC died at 24 months

NA

2/2 (MA)

Dreger (3rd International Workshop on WM, Paris 2004)

Case reports

n=4 (RIC) heavily pretreated

Yes post-DLI with cGVHD

Three CR achieved

NA

No

Anagnostopoulos et al.4

Retrospective study

n=26 50% chemo-resistant MA=21 RIC=5

NA (high progression rate)

46% at 3 years (NA data for the RIC subgroup)

70% at 3 years (NA data for the RIC subgroup)

40% (NA data for the RIC subgroup)

  1. Abbreviations: allo-SCT=allogeneic stem cell transplantation; cGVHD=chronic GVHD; CR=complete remission; DLI=donor lymphocyte infusion; FU=follow-up; GVT=graft-versus-tumor; MA=myeloablative conditioning; NA=not available; PR=partial remission; RIC=reduced intensity conditioning; TRM=tumor-related mortality.