BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANTATION IN AUSTRALIA DURING 1992

Australia has a population of 17.5 million people distributed in six s tates and two territories. The first allogeneic transplants were perfo rmed in the early 1970s. There are now 19 hospitals registered with th e Australian Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Data Registry. In 1992 a total of 478 transplant procedures were carried out, of which 228 wer e allografts and 250 were autografts. The principal indications for al lografting were acute leukaemia and chronic myeloid leukaemia; the pri ncipal indications for autografting were non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, acute myeloid leukaemia and myeloma. In general the patterns of indications and donor use do not differ from those seen in most European countrie s and North America.