What is the upper age limit for performing allo-SCT? Cord blood transplantation for an 82-year-old patient with AML.

摘要

Since morbidity and mortality associated with hemato-logic malignant diseases in elderly patients is higher than that in younger patients, elderly patients are less likely to be candidates for allo-SCT, due to the facts that they are more likely to have comorbid organ conditions, either clinically or subclinically, which results in a higher rate of procedure-related mortality, and that they are less likely to have HLA-matched related donors available, as siblings also tend to be elderly.'