Predictive Factors of Survival Time after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients who Received Allogeneic BMT from Matched Sibling Donors Using Generalized Gamma Models

Introduction: This paper used Generalized Gamma (GG) distribution to find the predictive factors of overall survival (OS) after haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) in acute myeloid leukemia patients. Methods: Discrimination among the exponential, Weibull, GG, log-logistic, and lognormal distributions was done using maximum likelihood and Akaike information criteria. Results: The 5-year OS in 301 patients was 65% (95%CI: 60.7-69.3). Peak mortality hazard occurred at months 6-7 after HSCT then, it was U Shape. The data was fitted by GG distribution better than other distributions. Univariate analysis using GG distribution showed a positive association between OS with dose of infused WBC (P=0.018), CD3 (p=0.001), no relapse (P