Bone marrow transplantation for patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia: T-cell depletion with Campath-1 reduces the incidence of graft-versus-host disease but may increase the risk of leukaemic relapse.
Between December 1983 and November 1985 we treated 39 patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia by chemoradiotherapy and transplantation from HLA-identical sibling donors using bone marrow that had been depleted of T cells ex vivo with the rat monoclonal antibody Campath-1. Twenty-eight of the patient...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1986
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