Current use and outcome of blood and marrow transplantation in childhood according to the Italian Registry

Since 1985 data concerning patients affected by malignant and non-malignant diseases, aged <17 years, grafted in 16 centers nationwide, have been coll ected and stored in a central data base organized at the Associazione Itali ana di Ematologia ed Oncologia Pediatrica (AIEOP) Operation Office within t he AIEOP BMT Registry. The information, collected and structurally integrat ed with other specific disease-oriented national data bases, permitted the elaboration and the following publication of several analyses on survival, relapse probability and transplant-related mortality for the different dise ases.