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C Alan Howard1, Marcelo A Fernandez-Vina2, Frederick R Appelbaum3, Dennis L Confer4, Steven M Devine5, Mary M Horowitz6, Adam Mendizabal7, Ginna G Laport8, Marcelo C Pasquini6, Stephen R Spellman9.
Abstract
The Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMT CTN) conducts large, multi-institutional clinical trials with the goal of improving the outcomes of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for patients with life-threatening disorders. Well-designed HCT trials benefit from standardized criteria for defining diagnoses, treatment plans, and graft source selection. In this perspective, we summarize evidence supporting criteria for the selection of related and unrelated adult volunteer progenitor cell donors or umbilical cord blood units. These standardized criteria for graft source selection have been adopted by the BMT CTN to enhance the interpretation of clinical findings within and among future clinical protocols.Entities:
Keywords: Allogeneic transplantations; Cord blood donor; Recipient; Related donor; Unrelated donor
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25278457 PMCID: PMC4272893 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.09.017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant ISSN: 1083-8791 Impact factor: 5.742