Quality of Life following Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for Patients Age >60 Years with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia.

This study of patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) age ≥60 years analyzed the association between patients' performance indices-Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Comorbidity Index (HCT-CI), Karnofsky Performance Score (KPS), and European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) risk score-before undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) and quality of life (QoL), quantified using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bone Marrow Transplant Scale (FACT-BMT), in the first year after allo-HSCT. Over a period of 7 years, 48 evaluable patients underwent reduced-intensity conditioning allo-HSCT. The median patient age was 65 years (range, 60 to 74 years), with 2-year and 5-year overall survival (OS) of 65.