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APRIL 21, 2016

HCT Offers AML Patients Sizable Long-Term Survival Benefit

Orlando, Fla.—A registry has documented relatively high rates of long-term survival among patients with secondary acute myeloid leukemia (sAML) who undergo hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT).

Two-year overall survival (OS) in this registry—the largest cohort of patients receiving HCT for sAML—is 46%, and 31% of patients remained leukemia-free five years after transplant.

The registry study, initiated in the year 2000, has generated a variety of potentially useful