Research progress on maintenance therapy following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for acute leukemia
Acute leukemia(AL)is a malignant clonal disease caused by hematopoietic stem cells.Depending on the cell type involved,AL is classified as acute lymphoblastic leukemia(ALL)or acute myeloid leukemia(AML).Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation(allo-HSCT)is an important and effective treatment for patients with AL to achieve long-term survival.However,recurrence after transplantation remains the primary cause of death.Pretransplantation status,transplantation conditioning,and prevention of post-transplantation relapse affects post-transplantation outcomes.This review focuses on post-transplantation maintenance therapy.Several studies on post-trans-plantation maintenance therapy are discussed,including research on post-transplantation maintenance therapy with epigenetic drugs,tar-geted drugs,and immunologic drugs.