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To investigate the safety of total body irradiation-based myeloablative conditioning (TBI-MAC) in adolescent and young adult (AYA) Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-negative acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients treated with pediatric protocols, treatment outcomes of 106 AYA patients aged 16-39 years old undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplant (allo-SCT) with TBI-MAC in the first remission were compared according to chemotherapy types before transplant. Pediatric and adult protocols were used in 56 and 50 of the patients, respectively. The cumulative incidence (CI) of non-relapse mortality (NRM) and the overall survival (OS) rates were not significantly different between the pediatric-protocol and adult-protocol group (NRM: 4 % vs. 14 % at five years post-transplant, respectively, p = 0.26; OS: 81 % vs. 66 %, respectively, p = 0.14). Multivariate analysis for NRM revealed that a performance status >0 (hazard ratio [HR] = 4.8) and transplant due to chemotherapy toxicities (HR = 3.5) were independent risk factors, but a pediatric protocol was not (HR = 0.48). The CI of NRM and the OS rates were also similar among patients aged over 24 years old. These findings suggested that conventional allo-SCT with TBI-MAC can be performed without increasing NRM in AYA patients with Ph-negative ALL even after pediatric protocols.

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