Successful treatment of JMML relapsed after unrelated allogeneic transplant with cytoreduction followed by DLI and interferon-alpha: evidence for a graft-versus-leukemia effect in non-monosomy-7 JMML

Bone Marrow Transplant. 2004 Jan;33(1):113-5. doi: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704287.

Abstract

Relapse is the major cause of treatment failure after allogeneic transplantation of children with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML), and the role of post-transplant immunomodulation is poorly understood. We report a 12-month-old child with JMML relapsed after unrelated marrow transplantation who received cytoreduction followed by donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) with improvement, and after addition of interferon-alpha (IFN) achieved complete donor chimerism. He was weaned from IFN and has maintained complete remission for 19 months. This is the first published report of a patient with non-monosomy-7 JMML responding to post-transplant immunomodulation and suggests a role for DLI plus IFN in these patients.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation / methods*
  • Chromosome Aberrations
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 7
  • Disease-Free Survival
  • Graft vs Leukemia Effect
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Interferon-alpha / therapeutic use*
  • Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Chronic / therapy*
  • Lymphocyte Transfusion / methods*
  • Recurrence
  • Remission Induction
  • Transplantation Chimera
  • Transplantation, Homologous
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Interferon-alpha