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Prognostic significance of p80 and visceral involvement in childhood CD30 anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL)

✍ Scribed by Massimino, M. ;Spreafico, F. ;Luksch, R. ;Giardini, R.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 163 KB
Volume: 37
Category: Article
ISSN: 0098-1532
DOI: 10.1002/mpo.1176

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Abstract

Background

Between 1976 and 1998, CD30+anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) was diagnosed in 44 children (28 males, 16 females, age range 2.7–16.1 years, median 10). Up to 1993, 32 such children were treated according to a common chemotherapeutic protocol that stratified patients according to stage, without considering presenting features. Thereafter, patients presenting with visceral (lung, spleen, liver, gastro‐intestinal tract) or mediastinal involvement were assigned to a high‐risk treatment protocol with induction intensification. The generation of these two risk‐groups was the result of a retrospective analysis of clinical risk factors for therapy failure as previously reported [Massimino M, Gasparini M, Giardini R, Ann Oncol 1995;6:915–920]. Considering the whole cohort of patients divided into group A—21/22 evaluable patients with visceral/mediastinal involvement, and group B—22 evaluable patients, with other ALCL location—disease‐free survival (DFS) and survival (S) at 5 years were 57 and 58% for group A, and 83 and 100% (94% at 6 years) for group B, respectively.

Procedure

We tested 15/21 cases of group A, and 18/22 of group B for p80 immunoreactivity in order to investigate a possible correlation between ALCL locations and NPM‐ALK expression.

Results

Thirteen of 15 specimens in group A and 17/18 in group B were positive for p80.

Conclusions

It is impossible to conclude anything about p80 positivity based on a series of 33/44 patients with childhood ALCL, neither about over‐all prognosis nor about the role of visceral involvement. In adults, NPM‐ALK protein expression is a favourable prognostic factor. Med Pediatr Oncol 2001;37:97–102. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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