Background High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous bonemarrow transplantation is a therapeutic option for patientswith chemotherapy-sensitive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma who haverelapses. In this report we describe a prospective randomizedstudy of such treatment.
Methods A total of 215 patients with relapses of non-Hodgkin'slymphoma were treated between July 1987 and June 1994. All patientsreceived two courses of conventional chemotherapy. The 109 patientswho had a response to chemotherapy were randomly assigned toreceive four courses of chemotherapy plus radiotherapy (54 patients)or radiotherapy plus intensive chemotherapy and autologous bonemarrow transplantation (55 patients).
Results The overall rate of response to conventional chemotherapywas 58 percent; among patients with relapses after chemotherapy,the response rate was 64 percent, and among those with relapsesduring chemotherapy, the response rate was 21 percent. Therewere three deaths from toxic effects among the patients in thetransplantation group, and none among those in the group receivingchemotherapy without transplantation. The two groups did notdiffer in terms of prognostic factors. The median follow-uptime was 63 months. The response rate was 84 percent after bonemarrow transplantation and 44 percent after chemotherapy withouttransplantation. At five years, the rate of event-free survivalwas 46 percent in the transplantation group and 12 percent inthe group receiving chemotherapy without transplantation (P= 0.001), and the rate of overall survival was 53 and 32 percent,respectively (P = 0.038).
Conclusions As compared with conventional chemotherapy, treatmentwith high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantationincreases event-free and overall survival in patients with chemotherapy-sensitivenon-Hodgkin's lymphoma in relapse.
It is generally agreed that patients with intermediate- or high-gradenon-Hodgkin's lymphoma who have a relapse after initial therapyhave a poor prognosis.1,2 A retrospective study in 1984 fromFrance and England showed a clear relation between the responsivenessof the lymphoma to treatment and the outcome.3 In 1987, thecombination of high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrowtransplantation in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in relapsewas considered promising but experimental and appropriate foruse only at research centers.1 The value of that treatment remainsan open question, because conventional salvage treatment withoutautologous bone marrow transplantation can induce lengthy remissions;long-term survival after a relapse has been reported with atleast five different chemotherapy regimens.4,5,6,7,8
In a preliminary study, our group (the Parma Group, formed in1986 during a meeting in Parma, Italy) found that salvage chemotherapyfollowed by radiotherapy of the involved field, high-dose chemotherapy,and autologous bone marrow transplantation induced prolonged,but unmaintained, remissions in 40 percent of patients who hadtreatment-sensitive lymphomas in relapse. The death rate fromtoxic effects among these patients was only 10 percent.9 Wenow report the results of a prospective randomized trial ofthis treatment.10
Methods
Patients
We enrolled a total of 215 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomaof intermediate grade (163 patients) or high grade (52 patients)in relapse. The patients were 18 to 60 years old at the timeof the first relapse (188 patients) or the second relapse (27patients). The patients were enrolled between July 1987 andJune 1994 at 51 participating centers (see the Appendix).
To be eligible for enrollment, patients had to have receivedprevious treatment with a doxorubicin-containing regimen.10All patients had a complete response to an initial inductionregimen, with the response maintained for at least four weeks.Relapses during and after therapy were defined by the investigatorsat the participating centers. Patients with central nervoussystem or bone marrow involvement at the time of the relapsewere excluded. Informed consent was obtained from each patientaccording to the Parma protocol and the rules of each participatingcenter and country.
All patients were given dexamethasone, cisplatin, and cytarabine(DHAP).5 After one course of DHAP, bone marrow was harvested(except in 41 patients with clearly progressive disease) whilethe patients were under general anesthesia. The bone marrowwas frozen,9 unless marrow had been stored previously (in thecase of 24 patients). Bone marrowbiopsy specimens obtainedat the time of harvesting were normal in all patients. Noneof the patients received hematopoietic growth factors beforethe bone marrow was harvested. Peripheral-blood stem cells werenot collected. A second course of DHAP was given beginning onday 1 after the harvesting. Twenty days later, the stage ofthe disease was reevaluated according to the sites involvedwhen the first course of DHAP therapy was initiated. Patientswith complete or partial responses were considered to have relapsesof chemotherapy-sensitive lymphoma and were eligible for randomassignment to one of the treatment groups.
Randomization was performed as early as possible between day20 and day 60 after the initiation of the second course of DHAP.Interactive computerized procedures were used to monitor dataat the time of enrollment and randomization. Patient assignmentswere stratified according to center, and the computer assignedeach patient to a treatment group on the basis of a permuted-blockdesign. All data were checked for validity and coherence bythe coordinating center. Errors and missing values were reportedto the investigators for correction or confirmation. The plausibilityof the data and consistency among variables were checked. On-sitemonitoring was not performed systematically, but before thefinal analysis, an effort was made to obtain missing data.
Treatment
Eligible patients were randomly assigned to receive autologousbone marrow transplantation or conventional treatment. The conditioningregimen in the transplantation group consisted of carmustine,etoposide, cytarabine, cyclophosphamide, and mesna (BEAC), withor without radiotherapy of the involved field, followed by bonemarrow transplantation. Radiotherapy was part of the transplantationprotocol and was indicated if the sites of bulky disease atthe time of relapse were at least 5 cm in diameter or if therewere extranodal T3 or T4 lesions (according to the classificationof the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer).9The total dose of radiation was 26 Gy, given in fractions of1.3 Gy each, delivered twice daily with at least four hoursbetween the two treatments. An involved field was defined accordingto the Ann Arbor staging system11 and the diameter of bulkydisease at the time of the relapse (i.e., during the enrollmentphase), not at the time of randomization.9 BEAC was administered48 hours after the completion of radiotherapy, on days 21 through60 after the second course of DHAP.
The regimen consisted of 300 mg of carmustine per square meterof body-surface area (administered intravenously for 30 to 60minutes) on day 1; a total daily dose of 200 mg of etoposideper square meter (100 mg per square meter given intravenouslyfor 30 to 60 minutes twice daily) on days 2 through 5; a totaldaily dose of 200 mg of cytarabine per square meter (100 mgper square meter given intravenously for 30 minutes twice daily)on days 2 through 5; a total daily dose of 35 mg of cyclophosphamideper kilogram of body weight (given as a short infusion for 60minutes) on days 2 through 5; and a total daily dose of 50 mgof mesna per kilogram (optional) on days 2 through 5 (givenintravenously in six fractions every 4 hours for 30 minutes).Autologous bone marrow transplantation was performed througha central line 48 hours after the last dose of etoposide, witha minimum of 100 million nucleated cells per kilogram injected.Patients received care in single rooms according to the protocolfor supportive care at each participating center.10
The conventional treatment consisted of four additional coursesof DHAP given at intervals of three to four weeks, followed,if no progression occurred, by radiotherapy of the involvedfield according to the same definition of bulky disease usedat the time of enrollment (i.e., >5 cm). The radiotherapywas administered as complementary treatment. The dose of radiationwas 35 Gy delivered in 20 fractions of 1.75 Gy per fraction.
After randomization, each patient was evaluated in the groupto which he or she had been assigned, even if the treatmentwas incomplete. The objective was to compare groups, not treatments.In both groups, additional treatment was allowed if the assignedtreatment had failed. Such additional treatment included high-dosechemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation forpatients in the conventional-treatment group. No specific conditioningregimen was recommended at this stage.
Statistical Analysis
Survival curves were calculated according to the KaplanMeiermethod12 and compared by the two-sided log-rank test,13 withthe use of the Lifetest procedure in the SAS statistical package.Differences were considered significant if the P value was lessthan 0.05. Other comparisons were performed with the chi-squareand Fisher's exact tests.14
An event was defined as a relapse, evidence of disease progression,or death, whatever the cause. The date of the first event wasused in calculating event-free survival.
A steering committee and policy board (see the Appendix) wereset up in 1987 to monitor the interim analysis. The first analysiswas performed in June 1990 to detect any abnormal toxic effectsin the transplantation group (>15 percent).9 A second analysiswas performed in June 1992, with differences considered significantif the P value was less than 0.01. The policy board decidedto stop the study in June 1994, before further analysis of thedata had been performed.
Results
Enrollment and Treatment
A total of 215 patients were enrolled in the study. There were126 men and 89 women, with a median age of 43 years. A totalof 163 patients had intermediate-grade lymphoma, and 52 hadhigh-grade lymphoma. A central review of the pathological findingswas not mandatory. Forty-three percent of the patients had elevatedserum lactic dehydrogenase values at the time of enrollment.
The rate of response to the initial doxorubicin-containing regimenwas 58 percent. Fifty-three patients (25 percent) had completeresponses and 72 (34 percent) had partial responses. Among the187 patients who had relapses after therapy with the doxorubicin-containingregimen, 64 percent had responses to two courses of DHAP. Amongthe 28 patients who had relapses during therapy with the doxorubicin-containingregimen, the rate of response to DHAP was 21 percent.
Ninety patients were excluded before randomization because theydid not have a response to DHAP, and 16 of the 125 patientswith responses (8 with complete responses and 8 with partialresponses) were not included for reasons defined in the protocol.
The remaining 109 patients were randomly assigned to high-dosechemotherapy, irradiation of the involved field (if indicated),and autologous bone marrow transplantation (55 patients) orconventional treatment (54 patients). Of these 109 patients,95 were having a first relapse, and 14 were having a secondrelapse; all 109 had had complete responses after the first-linetherapy. The serum concentration of lactate dehydrogenase waselevated in 36 of the 105 randomized patients (34 percent) forwhom data were available at the time of enrollment (Table 1).At the time of randomization, the lactate dehydrogenase concentrationwas still abnormal in 20 patients in the transplantation groupand 21 in the conventional-treatment group. Of the 109 patients,45 had complete responses (41 percent) and 64 had partial responses(59 percent) at the time of randomization.
Table 1. Base-Line Characteristics of the 109 Patients with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Randomly Assigned to Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation or Conventional Treatment.
The time of relapse (during or after therapy), histologic typeof lymphoma, and number of second relapses (nine in the conventional-treatmentgroup and five in the transplantation group, P = 0.24) weresimilar in the two groups (Table 1). The site of the relapse,proportion of patients with elevated lactate dehydrogenase concentrationsat the time of the relapse (36 percent in the transplantationgroup and 33 percent in the conventional-treatment group), andsize of the tumor at the time of the relapse were also similarin the two groups.
Six of the 55 patients randomly assigned to high-dose chemotherapyand autologous bone marrow transplantation did not undergo transplantationbut were analyzed with the other patients in this group.15 Oneof the six died early in the course of a relapse, before receivingBEAC. Two had progressive disease before receiving BEAC, weretreated with other chemotherapeutic regimens, and died. Anotherpatient who had progressive disease before the administrationof BEAC received salvage treatment and then BEAC, had a relapsefour months later, received another rescue treatment, and survived.The other two patients received DHAP: one because of a cardiacproblem after randomization and before the administration ofBEAC, and one because no stem cells were present in the bonemarrow before the initiation of BEAC. These two patients underwentautologous bone marrow transplantation outside the protocolafter relapse (with a second harvest performed in one), andboth died.
Overall and Event-Free Survival
Thus, 49 patients received high-dose chemotherapy and autologousbone marrow transplantation. Three (6 percent) died from toxiceffects: one from septic shock on day 63 after transplantation,one from a fungal infection on day 97, and one from cardiactoxicity on day 83. An additional patient, who was in completeremission, died from pulmonary infection on day 406 after transplantation(this death was classified as due to late toxicity). Twenty-twoof the 55 patients in the transplantation group received radiotherapy.Two of these patients had relapses before receiving BEAC. Morbidityafter treatment with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bonemarrow transplantation was high, with 1 case of septic shockand 30 episodes of bacterial infection (septicemia in 17), 8of viral infection, 6 of fungal infection, 5 of renal toxicity,4 of hepatic toxicity (grade 3 in 2 patients), and 3 of pneumonitis.Twenty-seven patients had mucositis (grade 3 in 7 patients andgrade 4 in 2), 16 had diarrhea (grade 3 in 6), and 1 had grade4 cardiac toxicity.
None of the 54 patients randomly assigned to the conventional-treatmentgroup died from toxic effects of treatment, and 37 patientsreceived at least three courses of DHAP. Only 12 of the 54 patientsreceived radiotherapy of the involved field after four additionalcourses of DHAP (essentially because 26 patients had relapsesduring the four courses of DHAP and before receiving radiotherapy).Morbidity was lower in this group than in the transplantationgroup, with one case of septic shock and six episodes of bacterialinfection (septicemia in three), two of viral infection, oneof fungal infection, three of pneumonitis, and one of hepatictoxicity. Four patients had mucositis, three had diarrhea (grade3 in one patient), and two had cardiac toxicity (grade 1 inboth). Only renal toxicity (14 cases, 1 of which was grade 3)was more frequent than in the transplantation group.
The median follow-up period was 63 months. The response ratewas 84 percent after bone marrow transplantation and 44 percentafter chemotherapy without transplantation. The overall survivalat five years in the group of 109 randomized patients was 42percent, as compared with 45 percent in the group of 16 patientsexcluded from randomization (5 of the 8 survivors had no evidenceof disease) and 11 percent in the group of 90 patients withoutinitial responses to chemotherapy (P<0.001). The rate ofevent-free survival was 46 percent in the transplantation groupand 12 percent in the conventional-treatment group (P = 0.001)(Figure 1). At five years, the overall survival was 53 percentin the transplantation group and 32 percent in the conventional-treatmentgroup (P = 0.038) (Figure 2).
Figure 2. KaplanMeier Curves for Overall Survival of Patients in the Transplantation and Conventional-Treatment Groups.
The data are based on an intention-to-treat analysis. Tick marks represent censored data.
Relapses
Twenty-six of the patients who received high-dose chemotherapyand autologous bone marrow transplantation had relapses. Therewas no significant difference in the proportion with relapsesbetween the subgroup of patients who had received radiotherapyof the involved field (22 patients, 8 with relapses) and thesubgroup who had not received radiotherapy (33 patients, 18with relapses; P = 0.19). Relapses occurred at the primary siteof the disease at the time of the first relapse in 4 of the22 patients who underwent irradiation and in 12 of the 33 whodid not (P = 0.15).
In the conventional-treatment group, 45 patients had relapses,also with no statistical difference between those who receivedradiotherapy of the involved field (12 patients, 10 with relapses)and those who did not (42 patients, 35 with relapses; P = 0.66).Relapses occurred at the primary site of disease at the timeof the first relapse in 5 of the 12 patients who underwent irradiationand in 26 of the 42 who did not (P = 0.21).
Transplantation in the Conventional-Treatment Group
Among the 45 patients in the conventional-treatment group whohad relapses, 24 did not have at least a partial response toreinduction therapy, and 3 did not undergo autologous bone marrowtransplantation, despite a previous response to a rescue protocol.Eighteen of the 45 patients who had relapses with progressivedisease subsequently were treated with a high-dose regimen ofchemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation, as allowed inthe protocol. Sixteen of these 18 patients underwent inductionchemotherapy according to a conventional rescue protocol (MIME[mitoguazone, ifosfamide, methotrexate, and etoposide] in 7,and other treatments in 9). The conditioning regimen was BEACin eight patients, cyclophosphamide and total-body irradiationin five, and other treatments in five (data not shown). Fourteenof the 18 died, and 2 survived with relapses; only 2 were aliveand free of disease 333 and 1911 days after autologous bonemarrow transplantation.
Discussion
This study demonstrates a significantly higher survival rateafter high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantationthan after conventional chemotherapy in adults with relapsesof chemotherapy-sensitive, intermediate- or high-grade non-Hodgkin'slymphoma. Since we selected patients who were optimally suitedfor chemotherapy, the result in the conventional-treatment groupis disappointing. Furthermore, 11 of the 20 patients still aliveat the time of the analysis had progressive disease. These resultsare similar to those reported by Bosly et al. in a nonrandomized,retrospective study.8
One patient had a relapse 26 months after undergoing autologousbone marrow transplantation. On review the tumor was found tobe a small lymphocytic follicular lymphoma, at the time of boththis relapse and the initial relapse, not an intermediate-grade,diffuse, mixed-cell type, as originally diagnosed. The patientdied 53 months after the transplantation.16 In another patient,who had a relapse at 66 months, the disease was diagnosed aftera review of the slides (performed by Dr. D.D. Weisenburger,Omaha, Nebr.) as diffuse, large-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomaat the time of the initial diagnosis and the first and secondrelapses. This patient survived.
The prognosis is poor for patients with intermediate- or high-gradenon-Hodgkin's lymphoma who have a relapse after a complete remission,regardless of whether any further treatment is given.6,17,18,19The most important prognostic factor is the duration of theremission.17 Second complete remissions do occur, however, afterfurther treatment with combination chemotherapy at standarddoses, and 10 percent of patients survive for long periods.17,20,21,22Cures with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrowtransplantation were first reported by Appelbaum et al.23; thisapproach, however, is restricted to a minority of patients inrelapse, since it cannot be used in patients who are elderly(i.e., older than 60 to 65 years).17
We believe that patients with chemotherapy-sensitive lymphomasin relapse are most likely to have good results with additionalchemotherapy.2,3 In our study we selected the patients mostlikely to benefit from either type of treatment: those youngerthan 60 years with previous complete responses, no central nervoussystem or bone marrow involvement, and previous responses toa conventional rescue protocol. Because of these stringent selectioncriteria, only 129 patients were enrolled between July 1987and November 1989. Only 43 patients were enrolled between December1989 and November 1991, because 29 of the 51 participating centershad stopped enrolling patients in the study. Only 18 centerswere still enrolling patients after November 1991, and the policyboard stopped the study in June 1994 because of the low rateof accrual. The rates of response and survival did not differsignificantly among these three periods of enrollment.
The two groups of randomized patients were similar with regardto prognostic factors. Only 22 of 88 patients who could be evaluatedhad an intermediate or high tumor burden, and only 36 of 105had high lactate dehydrogenase levels. The six patients withintermediate-grade, follicular, large-cell lymphoma16 were equallydistributed in the two groups. Only two patients (both in theconventional-therapy group) had lymphoblastic lymphoma.24 Wethus succeeded in selecting a group of patients with favorableprognostic indicators in order to compare high-dose chemotherapyand autologous bone marrow transplantation with conventionaltherapy under the best possible conditions for the conventionalapproach.16,17,18,19,22,25,26
The rates of mortality from toxic effects and morbidity werehigher in the transplantation group than in the conventional-treatmentgroup. Future studies should be conducted to determine whethertoxicity can be reduced by the use of peripheral-blood stemcells and growth factors.17,27,28 Some unanswered questionsabout the management of relapses of lymphoma concern the rolesof total-body irradiation (although retrospective studies indicateno marked effect29), bone marrow purging and allogeneic marrowtransplantation,28,30,31,32 and peripheral-blood stem cellsin increasing survival and reducing relapses and toxicity.22,33
We conclude that radiotherapy of the involved field and BEACfollowed by autologous bone marrow transplantation is the bestavailable treatment for patients with relapses of chemotherapy-sensitive,intermediate- or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma without bonemarrow or central nervous system involvement.
Supported by grants from the Ligue Nationale de Lutte contrele Cancer (Ligues Départementales de la Haute Savoie,Saône et Loire, Rhône, Ain, and Ardèche),the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the ProgrammeHospitalier de Recherche Clinique.
We are indebted to Zora Abdelbost, head of the data-center staffin Lyon; to Dr. Thomas Bachelot, Dr. FrédéricGomez, and Elisabeth Heseltine for exceptional assistance inconducting this study; and to Yves Alamercery and Jean Maupas(Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Lyon), who were responsible forthe data-processing system.
Source Information
From the Department of Medical Oncology, Bone Marrow Transplantation and Biostatistics Unit, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France (T.P., P.B., F.C.); Universita degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome (C. Guglielmi, F.M.); the Doctor Daniel Den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (A.H.); Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek Huis, the Netherlands Cancer Center Institute, Amsterdam (R.S.); the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam (H.V.D.L.); Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium (D.B.); University Hospital Dijkzigt, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (P.S.); Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris (C. Gisselbrecht); Hôpital Jean Minjoz, Besançon, France (J.-Y.C.); Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nantes, Hôpital de l'Hôtel Dieu, Nantes, France (J.-L.H.); and Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre Benite, France (B.C.).
Address reprint requests to Prof. Philip at the Centre Régional de Lutte contre le Cancer Léon Bérard, 28 rue Laënnec, 69373 Lyon CEDEX 08, France.
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Appendix
The Parma study group consisted of the following centers andinvestigators: Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne,Australia: I. Cooper; St. Vincent Hospital, Sydney, Australia:J.C. Biggs; Academic Hospital, Brussels, Belgium: R. Schotsand B. Van Camp; Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels, Belgium: D.Bron; University Ziekenhuis, Edegem, Belgium: R. De Bock andZ. Berneman; Clinique de Mont Godine, Yvoir, Belgium: A. Boslyand C. Chatelain; Hôpital de la Durance, Avignon, France:G. Lepeu; Hôpital Jean Minjoz, Besancon, and Centre HospitalierGénéral Louis Pasteur, Colmar, France: J.Y. Cahn,E. Deconinck, and B. Audhuy; Hôpital Antoine Béclère,Clamart, France: G. Tertian and F. Boue; Hôpital Beaujon,Clichy, France: E. Attassi Dumont and J.F. Bernard; Centre Régionalde Lutte contre le Cancer (CRLCC) Jean Perrin, Clermont Ferrand,France: M. Legros and F. Mayer; Hôpital Henri Mondor,Creteil, France: C. Haioun; CRLCC George Francois Leclerc, Dijon,France: P. Fargeot; Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud and HôpitalEdouard Herriot, Lyon, France: B. Coiffier and C. Sebban; CRLCCLéon Bérard, Lyon, France: T. Philip, P. Biron,I. Philip, and J.Y. Blay; CRLCC Institut Paoli Calmettes, Marseille,and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Hôpital SaintEloi, Montpellier, France: D. Maraninchi, A.M. Stoppa, and V.Faucherre; CHU Brabois, Nancy, France: F. Witz; CHU HôtelDieu, Nantes, France: J.L. Harousseau and L. Bataille; CRLCCAntoine Lacassagne, Nice, France: A. Thyss; Hôpital SaintLouis, Paris: C. Gisselbrecht; CHU François Magendie,Pessac, and Centre Hospitalier Régional (CHR) SainteAndrée, Bordeaux, France: B. David, G. Marit, and M.Longy; CHU La Miletrie, Poitiers, France: F. Guilhot; HôpitalRobert Debré, Reims, France: B. Pignon; CHU Pontchaillou,Rennes, France: C. Dauriac; CRLCC Henri Becquerel, Rouen, France:H. Tilly; CRLCC René Huguenin, St. Cloud, France: M.Janvier; CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France: G. Laurent; CHU Bretonneau,Tours, France: P. Colombat; CHU Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France:J.L. Misset, P. Ribaud, M.P. Lemonnier, and M. Di Palma; KlinikumCharlottenburg, Berlin, Germany: W. Siegert; Universita degliStudi Bari Policlinico, Bari, Italy: V. Pavone and V. Liso;Ospedale Maggiore, Cremona, Italy: A. Porcellini and A. Manna;Università Di Parma, Parma, Italy: V. Rizzoli and L.Mangoni; Ospedale Maria Delle Croci, Ravenna, Italy: G. Rosti;Università La Sapienza, Rome: C. Guglielmi, F. Mandelli,M. Martelli, and G. Meloni; Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam:H. Van Der Lelie; Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, Amsterdam: R. Somers;University Hospital, Groningen, the Netherlands: G.W. Van Imhoff;University Hospital, Leiden, the Netherlands: J.C. Kluin Nelemans;University Hospital, Maastricht, the Netherlands: P. Hupperets;Doctor Daniel Den Hoed Cancer Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands:A. Hagenbeek; University Hospital Dijkzigt, Rotterdam, the Netherlands:P. Sonneveld; Leyenburg Hospital, The Hague, the Netherlands:H. Girrits and P.W. Wijermans; Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid:J. Fernandez-Ranada; Akademic Sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden: B.Simonsson; St. George's Hospital, London: J. Mansi; Royal SouthHants Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom: J.W. Sweetenham;Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton Surrey, United Kingdom: D. Cunningham;M.D. Anderson Hospital, Houston: F. Cabanillas; University ofArkansas, Little Rock: S. Jagannath; and University of Nebraska,Omaha: J.O. Armitage.
Policy board: D.L. Longo, National Cancer Institute, Frederick,Md.; K.G. Blume, Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, Calif.;E. Gluckman, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris; C. Griscelli,Hôpital Necker, Paris; D.W. Van Bekkum, RadiobiologicalInstitute, Rijswijk, the Netherlands; and C. Bernasconi, PoliclinicoSan Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
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