Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 368-375 , March 2010

Outcomes of Hematologic Malignancies after Unrelated Donor Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation According to Place of Residence

  • Fausto R. Loberiza Jr.

      Affiliations

    • University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Fausto R. Loberiza, Jr., MD, MS, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 987680 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-7680.
    • ,
  • Stephanie J. Lee

      Affiliations

    • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
    • ,
  • John P. Klein

      Affiliations

    • Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    • ,
  • Anna Hassebroek

      Affiliations

    • Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    • ,
  • Jason G. Dehn

      Affiliations

    • National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minneapolis
    • ,
  • Haydar A. Frangoul

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Theresa Hahn

      Affiliations

    • Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Gregory Hale

      Affiliations

    • A Children's Hospital, Saint Petersburg, Florida
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  • Hillard M. Lazarus

      Affiliations

    • University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
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  • Charles F. LeMaistre

      Affiliations

    • Texas Transplant Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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  • Richard T. Maziarz

      Affiliations

    • Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
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  • J. Douglas Rizzo

      Affiliations

    • Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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  • Navneet S. Majhail

      Affiliations

    • Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Received 5 October 2009 ,Accepted 26 October 2009.

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 Financial disclosure: See Acknowledgments on page 374.

PII: S1083-8791(09)00499-6

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2009.10.028

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 16, Issue 3 , Pages 368-375 , March 2010

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