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Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation - Blog Science Connections

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Updated Results of CBV and <strong>Autologous</strong><br />

<strong>Bone</strong> <strong>Marrow</strong> <strong>Transplantation</strong> for<br />

Hodgkin's Disease<br />

Sundar Jagannath, James O. Armitage, Karel A. Dicke,<br />

Fredrick B. Hagemeister, Kathleen Smith,<br />

Leonard J. Horwitz, William S. Velasquez,<br />

William P. Vaughan, Anne Kessinger,<br />

Fernando Cabanillas, and<br />

Gary Spitzer<br />

We developed a high-dose chemotherapy combination of cyclophosphamide,<br />

BCNCJ (carmustine), and VP-16-213 (etoposide) (CBV) with autologous bone<br />

marrow rescue and reported our experience in the treatment of leukemia,<br />

lymphoma, and solid tumors (1-3). The preliminary experience with this<br />

combination in patients with Hodgkin's disease failing both mechlorethamine,<br />

Oncovin (vincristine), procarbazine, and prednisone (MOPP)-like and<br />

Adriamycin (doxorubicin), bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (ABVD)-<br />

like regimens has been very encouraging (4,5). We report here the updated<br />

results on 62 patients undergoing treatment at both the University of<br />

Nebraska Medical School in Omaha and The University of Texas M. D.<br />

Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston.<br />

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