Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 565-586 , May 2010

NCI First International Workshop on The Biology, Prevention, and Treatment of Relapse After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Report from the Committee on the Biology Underlying Recurrence of Malignant Disease following Allogeneic HSCT: Graft-versus-Tumor/Leukemia Reaction

  • Jeffrey S. Miller

      Affiliations

    • Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Jeffrey S. Miller, MD, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street, SE, MMC 806, Minneapolis, MN 55455.
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  • Edus H. Warren

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
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  • Marcel R.M. van den Brink

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Medicine and Immunology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
    • ,
  • Jerome Ritz

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Warren D. Shlomchik

      Affiliations

    • Section of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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  • William J. Murphy

      Affiliations

    • University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California
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  • A. John Barrett

      Affiliations

    • Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Hans Jochem Kolb

      Affiliations

    • Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Department of Medicine III, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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  • Sergio Giralt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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  • Michael R. Bishop

      Affiliations

    • Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Bruce R. Blazar

      Affiliations

    • Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • J.H. Frederik Falkenburg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hematology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Received 3 February 2010 ,Accepted 5 February 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2010.02.005

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 16, Issue 5 , Pages 565-586 , May 2010

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