Acknowledgement
We gratefully acknowledge the support of Dr. Douglas Rizzo, Senior
Scientific Director from CIBMTR who introduced us to the eDBtC platform.
We thank the nonprofit Children’s Miracle Network for their 2018 and
2020 grants in support of FPBCC.
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Figure Legends:Figure 1 Overall Survival by Race
Figure 2 Overall Survival by HLA-Match, A – White HCT Recipients, B-
Black HCT recipients
Data Access:
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the
corresponding author upon a reasonable request.