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Prevention and treatment of relapse after stem cell transplantation in lymphoid malignancies

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Relapse is now the major cause of treatment failure after allogeneic HSCT (alloHSCT). Many novel strategies to address this critical issue are now being developed and tested. At the 3rd International Workshop on Biology, Prevention, and Treatment of Relapse held in Hamburg, Germany in November 2016, international experts presented and discussed recent developments in the field. Some approaches may be applicable to a wide range of patients after transplant, whereas some may be very disease-specific. We present a report from the session dedicated to issues related to prevention and treatment of relapse of lymphoid malignancies after alloHSCT. This session included detailed reviews as well as forward-looking commentaries that focused on Hodgkin lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and mantle cell lymphoma, diffuse large cell and follicular lymphoma, and multiple myeloma.

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  1. These authors contributed equally: Anna Sureda, Peter Dreger, Michael R. Bishop, Nicolaus Kroger, David L. Porter.

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  1. Hematology Department Institut Català d’Oncologia – Hospitale Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Anna Sureda

  2. Department Medicine V, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Peter Dreger

  3. European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), Leiden, The Netherlands

    Peter Dreger

  4. Hematopoietic Cellular Therapy Program Section of Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Michael R. Bishop

  5. Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center, Hamburg, Germany

    Nicolaus Kroger

  6. Division of Hematology Oncology, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, University of Pennsylvania and Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    David L. Porter

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Sureda, A., Dreger, P., Bishop, M.R. et al. Prevention and treatment of relapse after stem cell transplantation in lymphoid malignancies. Bone Marrow Transplant 54, 17–25 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-018-0214-5

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