Volume 195, Issue 4 pp. 495-506
Review

Allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation for myelofibrosis: a real-life perspective

Malvi Savani

Malvi Savani

Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ, USA

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Rémy Dulery

Rémy Dulery

Service d’Hématologie Clinique et Thérapie Cellulaire, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRs 938, Paris, France

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Abdul Hamid Bazarbachi

Abdul Hamid Bazarbachi

Service d’Hématologie Clinique et Thérapie Cellulaire, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRs 938, Paris, France

Department of Internal Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

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Razan Mohty

Razan Mohty

Service d’Hématologie Clinique et Thérapie Cellulaire, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRs 938, Paris, France

Department of Internal Medicine, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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Eolia Brissot

Eolia Brissot

Service d’Hématologie Clinique et Thérapie Cellulaire, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRs 938, Paris, France

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Florent Malard

Florent Malard

Service d’Hématologie Clinique et Thérapie Cellulaire, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRs 938, Paris, France

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Ali Bazarbachi

Ali Bazarbachi

Department of Internal Medicine, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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Arnon Nagler

Arnon Nagler

Hematology Division, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel

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Mohamad Mohty

Corresponding Author

Mohamad Mohty

Service d’Hématologie Clinique et Thérapie Cellulaire, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRs 938, Paris, France

Correspondence: Mohamad Mohty, Service d’Hématologie Clinique et Thérapie Cellulaire, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRs 938, Paris, France.

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First published: 21 April 2021
Citations: 2

MS and RD contributed equally to this work.

Summary

Myelofibrosis (MF) is a clonal stem cell neoplasm with heterogeneous clinical phenotypes and well-established molecular drivers. Allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) offers an important curative treatment option for primary MF and post-essential thrombocythaemia/polycythaemia vera MF or secondary MF. With a disease course that varies from indolent to highly progressive, we are now able to stratify risk of mortality through various tools including patient-related clinical characteristics as well as molecular genetic profile. Owing to the high risk of mortality and morbidity associated with HSCT for patients with myelofibrosis, it is important to improve patient selection for transplant. Our primary goal is to comprehensively define our understanding of current practices including the role of Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitors, to present the data behind transplantation before and after leukaemic transformation, and to introduce novel personalization of MF treatment with a proposed clinical-molecular prognostic model to help elucidate a timepoint optimal for consideration of HSCT.

Conflict of interest

MM reports grants and/or lecture honoraria from Janssen, Sanofi, Maat Pharma, JAZZ pharmaceutical, Celgene, Amgen, BMS, Takeda, Pfizer, Novartis, and Roche (all outside the submitted work). RD reports lecture honoraria from Keocyt, Sanofi and Novartis (all outside the submitted work). FM reports lecture honoraria from Therakos/Mallinckrodt, Biocodex, Janssen, Keocyt, Sanofi, JAZZ pharmaceutical and Astellas (all outside the submitted work). AB reports grants and/or lecture honoraria from Novartis, Roche, Janssen, Takeda, Sanofi, JAZZ pharmaceutical, Celgene, Amgen, and Pfizer (all outside the submitted work).

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