Journal article
One and a half million hematopoietic stem cell transplants: continuous and differential improvement in worldwide access with the use of non-identical family donors
D Niederwieser, H Baldomero, N Bazuaye, C Bupp, N Chaudhri, S Corbacioglu, A Elhaddad, C Frutos, S Galeano, N Hamad, AA Hamidieh, S Hashmi, A Ho, MM Horowitz, M Iida, G Jaimovich, A Karduss, Y Kodera, N Kröger, RP de Latour Show all
Haematologica | Published : 2022
Abstract
The Worldwide Network of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (WBMT) pursues the mission of promoting hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for instance by evaluating activities through member societies, national registries and individual centers. In 2016, 82,718 first HCT were reported by 1,662 HCT teams in 86 of the 195 World Health Organization member states representing a global increase of 6.2% in autologous HCT and 7.0% in allogeneic HCT and bringing the total to 1,298,897 procedures. Assuming a frequency of 84,000/year, 1.5 million HCT were performed by 2019 since 1957. Slightly more autologous (53.5%) than allogeneic and more related (53.6%) than unrelated HCT were reported. A remarka..
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