Impact of age on outcome of patients with cancer undergoing autologous bone marrow transplant.

Abstract

PURPOSE: We examined the impact of age on outcomes in patients with cancer undergoing autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT). PATIENTS AND METHODS: All 506 adult patients who underwent ABMT at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center between January 1987 and January 1994 were studied. A total of 405 patients were aged 18 to 49 years and 101 were aged > or = 50. The effect of age and other prognostic variables on transplant-related mortality …

Authors

Miller CB; Piantadosi S; Vogelsang GB; Marcellus DC; Grochow L; Kennedy MJ; Jones RJ

Journal

Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 1327–1332

Publisher

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

Publication Date

4 1996

DOI

10.1200/jco.1996.14.4.1327

ISSN

0732-183X

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Deborah Marcellus

Associate Professor (Part-Time), Faculty of Health Sciences

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