A risk score system for stratifying the risk of relapse in B cell acute lymphocytic leukemia patients after allogenic stem cell transplantation

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BACKGROUND: For patients with B cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (B-ALL) who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT), many variables have been demonstrated to be associated with leukemia relapse. In this study, we attempted to establish a risk score system to predict transplant outcomes more precisely in patients with B-ALL after allo-SCT.

METHODS: A total of 477 patients with B-ALL who underwent allo-SCT at Peking University People's Hospital from December 2010 to December 2015 were enrolled in this retrospective study. We aimed to evaluate the factors associated with transplant outcomes after allo-SCT, and establish a risk score to identify patients with different probabilities of relapse. The univariate and multivariate analyses were performed with the Cox proportional hazards model with time-dependent variables.

RESULTS: All patients achieved neutrophil engraftment, and 95.4% of patients achieved platelet engraftment. The 5-year cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR), overall survival (OS), leukemia-free survival (LFS), and non-relapse mortality were 20.7%, 70.4%, 65.6%, and 13.9%, respectively. Multivariate analysis showed that patients with positive post-transplantation minimal residual disease (MRD), transplanted beyond the first complete remission (≥CR2), and without chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) had higher CIR (P  < 0.001, P = 0.004, and P  < 0.001, respectively) and worse LFS (P  < 0.001, P = 0.017, and P  < 0.001, respectively), and OS (P  < 0.001, P = 0.009, and P  < 0.001, respectively) than patients without MRD after transplantation, transplanted in CR1, and with cGVHD. A risk score for predicting relapse was formulated with the three above variables. The 5-year relapse rates were 6.3%, 16.6%, 55.9%, and 81.8% for patients with scores of 0, 1, 2, and 3 (P  < 0.001), respectively, while the 5-year LFS and OS values decreased with increasing risk score.

CONCLUSION: This new risk score system might stratify patients with different risks of relapse, which could guide treatment.

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2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:134

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Chinese medical journal - 134(2021), 10 vom: 12. März, Seite 1199-1208

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Englisch

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Cao, Le-Qing [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yan-Rong [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Lan-Ping [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Xiao-Hui [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Huan [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yu-Hong [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Feng-Rong [VerfasserIn]
Han, Wei [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Yu-Qian [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Chen-Hua [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Fei-Fei [VerfasserIn]
Mo, Xiao-Dong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Kai-Yan [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Qiao-Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Ying-Jun [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Xiao-Jun [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 25.05.2021

Date Revised 19.01.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1097/CM9.0000000000001402

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NLM322907101