Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG)- or alemtuzumab-based graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis in reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) for patients 40 years and older with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first complete remission: a study from the EBMT Acute Leukemia Working Party

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