Table 1.

Current Indications for Autologous and Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation.

Autologous Transplantation* Allogeneic Transplantation
Malignancies Multiple myeloma Acute myeloid leukemia
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Hodgkin disease Chronic myeloid leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia Myelodysplastic syndromes
Neuroblastoma Myeloproliferative neoplasms
Ovarian cancer Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Germ-cell tumors Hodgkin disease
Multiple myeloma
Juvenile chronic myeloid leukemia
Non-malignant disorders Autoimmune disease Aplastic anemia
Amyloidosis Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
Fanconi’s anemia
Diamond-Blackfan anemia
Thalassemia major
Sickle cell anemia
Severe combined immunodeficiency
Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome
Inborn errors of metabolism
Congenital neutropenia syndromes
*More than 30,000 autologous transplantations are performed annually worldwide, two-thirds for multiple myeloma or non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
More than 24,000 allogeneic transplantations are performed annually worldwide, more than half for acute leukemias.
RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2014 October; 5(4): e0028. ISSN: 2076-9172
Published online 2014 October 29. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10162