Therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma: a report from the German Hodgkin Study Group

Blood. 2014 Mar 13;123(11):1658-64. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-07-512657. Epub 2014 Jan 29.

Abstract

Therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes (t-AML/MDS) represent severe late effects in patients treated for Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). Because more recent data are scarce, we retrospectively analyzed incidence, outcome, and risk factors for the development of t-AML/MDS after HL. A total of 11,952 patients treated for newly diagnosed HL within German Hodgkin Study Group trials between 1993 and 2009 were considered. At a median follow-up of 72 months, t-AML/MDS was diagnosed in 106/11,952 patients (0.9%). Median time from HL treatment to t-AML/MDS was 31 months. The median age of patients with t-AML/MDS was higher than in the whole patient group (43 vs 34 years, P < .0001). Patients who received 4 or more cycles of BEACOPP(escalated) had an increased risk to develop t-AML/MDS when compared with patients treated with less than 4 cycles of BEACOPP(escalated) or no BEACOPP chemotherapy (1.7% vs 0.7% vs 0.3%, P < .0001). The median overall survival (OS) for all t-AML/MDS patients was 7.2 months. However, t-AML/MDS patients proceeding to allogeneic stem cell transplantation had a significantly better outcome with a median OS not reached after a median follow-up of 41 months (P < .001).

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / adverse effects*
  • Bleomycin / adverse effects
  • Cyclophosphamide / adverse effects
  • Doxorubicin / adverse effects
  • Etoposide / adverse effects
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Germany
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation*
  • Hodgkin Disease / drug therapy*
  • Hodgkin Disease / pathology
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / chemically induced*
  • Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / mortality
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes / chemically induced*
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes / mortality
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary*
  • Prednisone / adverse effects
  • Procarbazine / adverse effects
  • Prognosis
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Survival Rate
  • Vincristine / adverse effects
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Bleomycin
  • Procarbazine
  • Vincristine
  • Etoposide
  • Doxorubicin
  • Cyclophosphamide
  • Prednisone

Supplementary concepts

  • BEACOPP protocol