Table of Contents

Transplantation: State of the Art.- Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: The First 50 Years and a Glimpse of the Future.- Current Status of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.- Stem Cells and Growth Factors.- Normal and Leukemic Human Stem Cells.- Thrombopoietic Growth Factors — Managing Thrombocytopenia.- Erythropoietin Use in Therapy of Anemia Associated with Bone Marrow Transplantation in Children.- Autotransplantations of Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cells, Collected After Mobilization by Single-Dose Betaleukin (rh-IL-1b).- Stem Cells: Donors and Sources.- Allogeneic Cord Blood Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants in Malignancies.- Future Source of Allogeneic Stem Cells: Bone Marrow or Peripheral Blood?.- Marrow Unrelated Donor Transplantation: European Experience.- Immune Effects and Cellular Immune Therapy.- New Strategies for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.- Nonmyeloablative Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation: Towards Improving Efficacy of Immunotherapy Instead of Myeloablative Chemoradiotherapy.- Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation in Childhood Metastatic Osteosarcoma.- Mycophenolate Mofetil for the Treatment of Acute and Chronic GVHD in Bone Marrow Transplant Patients.- Peripheral Blood and Bone Marrow Derived Dendritic Cells in Acute Myelogenous Leukemia.- Minimal Residual Disease: Detection and Treatment.- Biologic Effects of TBI.- Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation and Cell Therapy for Acute Leukemia.- Positive Selection of Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells for Autologous and Allogeneic Transplantation in Pediatric Patients with Solid Tumors and Leukemia.- Simultaneous Double-Purging of Breast Cancer Cells from Leukapheresis Products by Imunomagnetic CD34+ Cell Enrichment and Tumor Cell Depletion.- Immunomagnetic Purging of Marrow and Peripheral Blood Progenitors for Autografting in Patients with Lymphoproliferative Disorders — Selection Efficacy and Engraftment.- Establishment of an NOD/SCID Mouse Model for Ewing Tumors: A Potential Preclinical Model to Test Novel Purging Strategies.- Molecular Genetic Detection of Minimal Metastatic and Residual Disease in Ewing’s Tumors.- Molecular Monitoring of Treatment Efficacy after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.- Detection of Residual Tumor Cells by RT-PCR for Tyrosine Hydroxylase mRNA.- Autologous Transplantation in Leukemias, Lymphomas, and Solid Tumors.- Autograft Followed by Allograft Without Myeloablative Conditioning Regimen: A New Approach for Resistant Hematologic Neoplasia and Breast Cancer.- Possible Prognostic Benefit from ABMT in First Remission Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.- Updated Results of an Age-Adapted Consolidation Strategy with ABMT ( 50 Years) in Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia.- Mobilization of Peripheral Blood Stem Cells after Intensive Induction and Consolidation Therapy in Adult Patients with De Novo Acute Myeloid Leukemia.- Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation in Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Patients Achieving a Second Complete Remission.- Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Lymphoid Malignancies.- Dexa-BEAM with High-Dose Cytarabine and Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation are Highly Effective in Heavily Pretreated Poor-Prognosis Lymphoma Patients.- Delayed Granulocyte Recovery and Suppressed Growth of Grafted CFU-GM If Allogeneic Marrow Cells are Transplanted 48 h After the Completion of High-Dose Busulfan and Cyclophosphamide (BuCy2) Therapy.- High-Dose Chemotherapy for Primary Metastatic or Relapsed Ewing Tumours: Outcome of 120 (EI) CESS Patients.- Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation in Childhood Metastatic Osteosarcoma.- Approaches to Gene Therapy.- Retroviral Transfer and Expression of Drug Resistance Genes in Hematopoietic Cells.- Gene Therapy with Cord Blood Hematopoietic Stem Cells for Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency: An Update.- Adenovirus Mediated P53 (Adp53) Gene Transfer.- Pharmacological Gene Therapy for Experimental Brain Tumors.- Transgenic Expression of IL-2 in Peripheral Neuroectodermal Malignancies of Childhood: In Vitro and In Vivo Effects on Lymphocyte Activation and Tumor Lysis.- Suicide Gene Transduced T-Cells for the Regulation of the Graft-Versus-Leukemia Effect.- Defining Current Strategies for Future Human Trials in Gene Therapy.

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