Is Imatinib Maintenance Required for Patients with Relapse Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Post-Transplantation Obtaining CMR? A Pilot Retrospective Investigation

Hua Jin, Yiying Xiong, Jing Sun, Yu Zhang, Fen Huang, Hongsheng Zhou, Zhiping Fan, Dan Xu, Yongqiang Wei, Min Dai, Ru Feng and Qifa Liu

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 6, 1-7

Abstract: Imatinib can induce complete molecular remission (CMR) in relapse chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, but it is indefinite whether imatinib is required to maintain CMR. We retrospectively reviewed 37 relapse CML post-transplants treated with imatinib (n = 20) or donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) (n = 17). The rate of CMR was 85% and 76.47% (P = 0.509) and treatment-related mortality was 0% and 29.4% (P = 0.019), respectively, in imatinib and DLI groups. Fifteen patients obtaining CMR voluntarily ceased imatinib, and did not experience relapse. The 8-year overall survival (OS) after relapse was 85%±8% and 40.3±12.1% (P = 0.017), and disease-free survival (DFS) after relapse was 85%±8% and 40.3±12.1% (P = 0.011), respectively, in imatinib and DLI groups. Imatinib resulted in higher OS and DFS than that of DLI in relapse CML. Imatinib maintenance might not be required for patients with relapse CML post-transplants after they achieved full donor chimerism and CMR.

Date: 2013
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