Current Clinical Practice: High-Dose Chemotherapy and Stem Cell Transplantation for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Review of Recent Advances

Abstract

The past decade has seen impressive achievements in the development of HDT/SCT for NHL, but much remains to be accomplished. Attention can be focused now on high risk patients whose outcome with HDT/SCT, as currently practiced, is poor. This is particularly true for patients with refractory or resistant disease. The preliminary research work summarized in this review leads us to believe that further progress is forthcoming, to the benefit of the patient's survival and quality of life.

Keywords:

• Lymphoma
• non-hodgkin's
• high-dose therapy
• stem cell transplantation