scholarly journals PB1704 CXCR-4 EXPRESSION AND ITS PROGNOSTIC IMPACT IN DE NOVO ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA PATIENTS- SINGLE INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE FROM SOUTH INDIA

HemaSphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (S1) ◽  
pp. 785
Author(s):  
C. Rajegowda ◽  
G. BABU ◽  
L. K C ◽  
L. ABRAHAM JACOB ◽  
L. D ◽  
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Blood ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 118 (21) ◽  
pp. 3596-3596
Author(s):  
Georgia Voutiadou ◽  
Konstantina Kotta ◽  
Barbara Tachynopoulou ◽  
Apostolia Papalexandri ◽  
Chryssanthi Vadikolia ◽  
...  

Abstract Abstract 3596 Immune phenotyping plays a critical role in the diagnosis and classification of acute leukemia. Several studies have reported a variable proportion of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) expressing lymphoid-associated antigens (LAA). The exact frequency and true clinical significance of this phenomenon remains undefined due to inconsistencies between series, likely related to methodological aspects or potential case selection biases. We retrospectively evaluated the expression of LAA in blast cells from 278 consecutive and unselected patients with AML diagnosed in our Department between 2002 and 2010. The patient cohort included 168 males and 110 females with a median age of 61 years (range, 10–88); 146/278 cases were above the age of 60. Within this cohort, 190 cases (68%) had de novo AML, whereas the remaining 88 cases (32%) concerned secondary AML (sAML) to either MDS (n=80) or other non-hematologic malignancies (n=8). Patients were treated uniformly according to age with Aracytin/Idarubicin induction regimens (“3+7” or “2+5” for ages \q60 or ≥60, respectively). The immunophenotype was determined by flow cytometric analysis of (mainly) bone marrow aspirate and/or peripheral blood samples utilizing a primary CD45/side scatter (SSC) gating procedure with antibodies against CD7, CD13, CD19, CD33, CD4, CD10, CD34, CD117, CD64, HLA-DR, CD20, CD2, CD15, CD56, CD14, CD8, MPO, CD3, CD79a, CD22, TdT and lysozyme; a cut-off value for positivity of 20% was adopted. Overall, we identified 153/278 cases (55%) expressing at least one LAA. The most commonly expressed LAAs were CD4 (outside AML with monocytic differentiation), CD56, CD7, CD2, CD10 and CD79a (in 39%, 33%, 29%, 14%, 10% and 8% of LAA+ AML cases, respectively); interestingly, all CD79a-positive cases co-expressed at least one more LAA. A significant association was identified between LAA expression and cytogenetic profile: in particular, at least one LAA was detected in 37/50 cases (74%) with adverse cytogenetics (SWOG unfavorable and/or monosomal karyotype), compared to 24/41 (58%) cytogenetically favorable cases and 68/134 (51%) cytogenetically intermediate risk cases (p=0.01). No other statistically significant associations were found for LAA expression (positive vs. negative) in respect to age and complete remission (CR) rate. Furthermore, the frequency of LAA-positive cases was identical (55%) in both de novo AML (105/190 cases) and sAML (48/88 cases). Monoparametric statistical analysis was also performed individually for each of the six more frequent LAAs. Significant associations (p<0.05) were identified between: (i) CD7 expression and adverse cytogenetics; (ii) CD10 expression and adverse cytogenetics as well as failure to achieve CR, at both cohort level as well as patients \q60 years with de novo AML; and (iii) CD2 expression and shorter overall and disease-free survival (DFS and OS, respectively). Cox-multivariate analysis identified CD2 expression in addition to advanced age, sAML and adverse cytogenetic profile as negative prognostic indicators (p=0.05) for both DFS and OS. In conclusion, expression of LAAs is frequent in AML, among both de novo AML and sAML cases, and significantly associated with adverse cytogenetics. Although the negative prognostic impact of CD2 expression is noteworthy, however, the precise prognostic implications of the expression of individual LAAs are hard to define on single institution retrospective series and will require evaluation in large prospective and well-controlled studies. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Blood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 120 (21) ◽  
pp. 2544-2544
Author(s):  
Xiuli Wang ◽  
Haiping Dai ◽  
Qian WANG ◽  
Qinrong Wang ◽  
Yang Xu ◽  
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Abstract Abstract 2544 Somatic mutation of the EZH2 gene is seen in myelodisplastic syndrome, myelofibrosis, and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia patients. The prevalence and prognostic impact of somatic mutations of EZH2 in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) remains unknown. In this study, we sought to determine the incidence and clinical implications of somatic EZH2 mutations in 714 patients with de novo AML by PCR amplification of the entire coding region followed by direct bidirectional DNA sequencing. EZH2 mutations were identified in 13/714 (1.8%) of AML patients and occurred almost exclusively in males (11/13, P=0.033). In univariate analysis, the presence of EZH2 mutations was significantly associated with lower blast percentage (21–30%) in bone marrow (P=0.0001) and −7/del(7q) (P=0.025). There was no difference in the incidence of mutations in 13 genes, including ASXL1, CBL, c-KIT, DNMT3A, FLT3, IDH1, IDH2, MLL, NPM1, NRAS, RUNX1, TET2, and WT1, between patients with and without EZH2 mutations. Complete remission, event-free survival or overall survival was similar between AML patients with and without EZH2 mutation (p>0.05). These results demonstrated EZH2 mutation as a recurrent genetic abnormality associated with lower blast percentage in BM and −7/del(7q) in de novo acute myeloid leukemia. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fumihiko Monma ◽  
Kazuhiro Nishii ◽  
Junko Shiga ◽  
Haruka Sugahara ◽  
Felipe Lorenzo ◽  
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Leukemia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1801-1806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Cheng ◽  
Y Wang ◽  
H Wang ◽  
Z Chen ◽  
J Lou ◽  
...  

Blood ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 132 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1492-1492
Author(s):  
Guadalupe Oñate ◽  
Ana Garrido ◽  
Jordi Esteve ◽  
Rosa Coll ◽  
Montserrat Arnan Sangerman ◽  
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Abstract Introduction The association of NPM1mut and FLT3-ITD in de novo acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with intermediate-risk cytogenetics has different prognostic impact depending on the FLT3 allelic burden. Previous studies published by our cooperative group showed that patients with de novo AML of intermediate-risk cytogenetics with NPM1mut and FLT3-ITD low ratio (<0.5, FLT3low) at diagnosis presented an overall survival and relapse rate similar to those with NPM1mut and FLT3wt. Therefore, in the CETLAM-2012 protocol, patients with FLT3low NPM1mut AML are not considered for allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (allo-HSCT) in first complete remission (CR1). Recent studies suggest that the co-occurrence of DNMT3A mutation in FLT3-ITD NPM1mut AML patients confers a worse prognosis regardless of FLT3-ITD ratio. We analysed our data to determine whether these findings were confirmed in our cohort, specifically in the low FLT3-ITD ratio patients, since this could have therapeutic implications. Methods and patients A total of 163 patients with de novo AML, intermediate-risk cytogenetics and NPM1mut were analysed (median age 53 years (18-72); male:female 72:91 (0.79)). Eighty patients (49%) harboured an FLT3-ITD, with a high allelic ratio in 42 of 76 patients with available ITD/wt ratio (55%). They were included in the AML-2003 (n=49) and AML-2012 (n=114) CETLAM protocols. Proportion of patients undergoing alloHSCT in CR1 is detailed in table 1. Bone marrow samples from diagnosis were studied for DNMT3A mutations as previously described. The definition of complete remission (CR), overall survival (OS), leukemia-free survival (LFS) and risk of relapse (RR) followed recommended ELN criteria. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate the distribution of LFS and OS, for RR cumulative incidence was used. Results Out of the 163 patients with AML of intermediate risk cytogenetics and NPM1mut, 78 presented DNMT3A mutations (48%). Of these, 62 (79%) presented mutations in codon R882 or corresponded to DNA insertions/deletions while 16 (21%) harboured missense mutations. Presence of DNMT3A mutation did not associate with FLT3-ITD (ITD/85 DNMT3Awt vs ITD/78 DNMT3Amut, p=0.394). In the entire cohort, 5-year OS, LFS and RR were 58±4.5%, 59±4.6% and 27±13.9%. FLT3-ITD ratio confirmed its prognostic impact when analysing FLT3wt (n=83) vs FLT3low (n=34) vs FLT3high (n=42) patients (5-year OS of 68±6% vs 62±8.7% vs 37±8.6%; p=0.002; and 5-year RR of 18±9.4% vs 27±16.1% vs 41±23.2%; p=0.023). On the contrary, DNMT3Amut did not exert any effect on overall outcome (5-yr OS DNMT3Awt vs DNMT3Amut 61±6.2% vs 55±6.2%; p=0.234) When DNTM3A mutational status was considered, the impact of FLT3-ITD on outcome was mitigated in wild-type DNMT3A population. Thus, we found that DNMT3Awt patients presented no statistical differences in OS according to FLT3 mutational status or ratio: FLT3wt (n=46) vs FLT3-ITD (n=39) was 67±8.5% vs 57±8.2%; p=0.122, whereas FLT3wt (n=46) vs FLT3low (n=18) vs. FLT3high (n=19) was 67±8.5% vs. 66±11.5% vs 46±11.8%; p=0.088 (image 1A).This was also seen in relation to LFS and RR according to FLT3 ratio: 5-yr LFS of FLT3wt vs FLT3low vs FLT3high was 72±7.9% vs 61±12.6% vs 51±13.4%; p=0.244 and 5-year RR of the same groups: 19±8.8% vs 26±12.5% vs 27±21.9%; p=0.724 (image 2A). In the DNMT3Amut group, patients with FLT3-ITD (n=41) presented shorter OS than those with FLT3wt (n=37) with an OS of 37±10.7% vs 69±7.8%; p=0.028. When FLT3 ratio was considered, FLT3wt (n=37) vs FLT3low (n=16) vs FLT3high (n=23) showed an OS of 69±7.8% vs. 58±13.2% vs 27±13.1%; p=0.038 (image 1B). Similar results were seen in LFS according to FLT3 ratio (FLT3wt (n=29) vs FLT3low (n=16) vs FLT3high (n=20) 71±8.6% vs 53±12.9% vs 18±13.8%; p=0.012). Finally, we observed significant differences in the 5-year RR when considering DNMT3Amut patients in relation to FLT3 ratio (FLT3wt vs FLT3low vs FLT3high 18±10.6% vs 27±20% vs 54±28.8%; p=0.021)(image 2B). Conclusions In this study, patients with NPM1mut and FLT3-ITDlow presented a similar outcome to patients with NPM1mut and FLT3wt regardless of DNMT3A mutational status. These results support the modification of alloHCST policy in CR1 in CETLAM-2012, which do not consider alloHSCT for patients with FLT3low. On the other hand, concurrence of DNMT3A mutation may have an added negative effect in patients with NPM1mut and FLT3-ITDhigh, which should be further confirmed in larger studies. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Blood ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 106 (11) ◽  
pp. 2363-2363
Author(s):  
María-Belén Vidriales ◽  
Lilia E. Suarez ◽  
Jose García-Laraña ◽  
Raimundo García-Boyero ◽  
María-José Moreno ◽  
...  

Abstract Elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have an unfavorable outcome, which has been related to both the poor performance status of many of these patients and the biological characteristics of the malignant clone, including the expression of multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotypes. We have quantitatively analyzed by flow cytometry the expression of apoptosis- (bcl-2, bax, APO2.7) and MDR- (P-gp, MRP, LRP) associated proteins in a group of 117 elderly (&gt;65 years) uniformly treated de novo AML patients according to the Pethema LMA-98 protocol. Upon analyzing factors influencing the response to induction therapy, as expected, patients with good and intermediate cytogenetics (n=76) more frequently achieved morphological complete remission (mCR) (63%) than patients having poor cytogenetics (n=23) (mCR: 30%). In addition, CD34 expression also influenced response; thus, 81% (21/26) of CD34-negative patients achieved mCR vs only 46% (42/91) of CD34-positive cases (p=0,008). Neither age nor WBC counts showed a significant influence in response rate. As far as apoptosis and MRD proteins is concerned, interestingly, responding cases showed a lower expression of the bcl-2, MRP and LRP proteins (bcl-2 RFI (relative fluorescence intensity) 10±5.5 vs 13±6, p=0.02; MRP RFI 1.9±0.8 vs 2.7±1.8, p=0.008; LRP RFI 6.2±4.9 vs 8.7±7.5, p=0.01 in responding vs non-responding patients). By contrast, expression of APO 2.7, Bax, and MDR-1 did not influenced response. Analysis of relapse free survival showed that only the number of cycles of chemotherapy required to achieve mCR had prognostic influence (p=0.008), with no significant influence for age, WBC counts, CD34 expression, or cytogenetics. In turn, a high percentage of early apoptotic cells in bone marrow at diagnosis (p=0.01), as well as a low bcl-2/bax ratio (p=0.05), and low MRP expression (p=0.04) were associated with a prolonged RFS. Moreover, upon grouping AML patients according to the expression of MRP and the bcl-2/bax ratio (&gt; and &lt; of the mean of both parameters), only patients with both low MRP expression and low bcl-2/bax ratio (n=16) achieved a plateau phase in the RFS curve after 20 months of follow-up, while the remaining patients showed a continuous relapse trend. In summary, our results show that, in addition to high bcl-2 and bcl-2/bax ratio, a high expression of the LRP and MRP multidrug resistant proteins have an adverse prognostic influence in elderly AML patients. The combination of these parameters contribute to identify distinct groups of patients at a different risk of relapse.


Blood ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 108 (11) ◽  
pp. 4462-4462
Author(s):  
Pau Montesinos ◽  
Lorenzo Algarra ◽  
Jaime Sanz ◽  
Mari Luz Perez ◽  
Leonor Senent ◽  
...  

Abstract Introduction: It has been suggested that acute myeloid leukemia (AML) showing mature phenotype is associated with favourable outcome. In a study recently published by JALSG, myeloperoxidase (MPO) positivity in over 50% of blasts had favourable prognostic impact, independent from karyotype, on achieving complete remission (CR), overall survival (OS) and disease free survival (DFS). No other studies have established the independent prognostic value of MPO expression. Objectives: Analyze the clinico-biological characteristics of AML with high percentage of MPO+ blasts and its impact on CR, OS and DFS. Material and methods: Between 1986 and 2005, 418 adult patients (median 53 years, range 15–80) were diagnosed with de novo non-APL AML and evaluated for percentage of MPO+ blasts. All patients received intensive chemotherapy. Diagnosis was made by optic microscopy of bone marrow (BM) aspirates stained with May-Grumwald giemsa, MPO, butyrate esterase and or non specific esterase. Cytogenetic and immunophenotype analysis was evaluated in 66% and in 76% of the cases respectively. Results: 118 patients (28%) showed a percentage of MPO+ blasts >75%. AML with MPO+ blasts >75% was associated with M1-M2-M4 subtypes, leucocytes >50×109/L, blasts in BM >70% and HLA-DR negativity (p<0.01). It was also significantly associated with favourable karyotype (11% vs 3% favourable, 52% vs 48% intermediate and 3% vs 15% unfavourable). Patients with AML and MPO+ blasts >75% obtained higher CR rate (71% vs 55%), due to less resistant disease (9% vs 22%, p<0.01). In multivariate analysis favourable karyotype, leukocytes <50×109/L and age <60 were favourable prognostic factors for CR. Median OS and DFS was higher in patients with AML and MPO+ blasts >75% (15 vs 7 months, p<0.001, y 41 vs 12 months, p<0.001, respectively). ). In multivariate analysis, favourable karyotype, leukocytes <50×109/L, age <60 years and MPO+ >50% were favourable prognostic factors for OS; and age <60 and MPO+ >75% were the only independent factors for DFS. Median DFS was higher in patients with AML and MPO+ blasts >75% in the intermediate cytogenetic risk group (59 vs 13 months, p=0.015), age <60 (109 vs 15 months, p=0.003), age >60 (13 vs 7 months, p=0.03), autologous stem cell transplantation (100 vs 9 months, p=0.04) and chemotherapy alone (16 vs 8 months, p=0.003). Conclusion: In our series, patients with AML and MPO+ blasts >75% show less chemoresistant disease and a longer remission duration, the latter independently from the karyotype. This biological characteristic could be useful in designing therapeutic strategies in patients that lack other prognostic markers.


Blood ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (22) ◽  
pp. 1003-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Granada ◽  
Salut Brunet ◽  
Montserrat Hoyos ◽  
Dolors Costa ◽  
Anna Aventín ◽  
...  

Abstract Abstract 1003 Poster Board I-25 Introduction: Recently, the cooperative group HOVON-SAKK has refined the prognostic impact of cytogenetic abnormalities in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by introducing the concept of monosomal karyotype (MK). This consists of ≥ 2 autosomal monosomies or one autosomal monosomy in addition to a structural alteration. In their experience, MK would explain the poor prognosis of AML with a complex karyotype. Objective: To investigate the prognostic impact of MK in patients with primary (de novo) AML enrolled in the Spanish CETLAM group protocols (AML 94/99/03). Also, to determine whether considering MK added predictive value to the cytogenetic classification of the Medical Research Council (MRC). Methods: Retrospective analysis of data from 1149 AML patients. Chromosomal formula was centrally reviewed with karyotypes being classified by the presence of MK and allocated into the MRC risk categories. Complete remission (CR) rate, disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were calculated. Results: The karyotype was assessable in 904 (79%) of the 1149 cases. In 145 of the 904 cases (16%), abnormalities involving CBF gene were detected and in 437 (48%) the karyotype was normal (NK). In 253 (28%) additional patients the karyotype was not monosomal; of them, 61 (24%) belonged to the unfavorable MRC with 17 cases harboring a complex karyotype ≥ 5 abnormalities, 7 cases with rearrangements 3q, 13 cases with -7, 9 cases with 5q abnormalities and 16 cases with t(6;9)). The remaining 69 (7.7%) patients had a MK; of them, 59 (85.5%) were from the unfavorable MRC category and included 43 cases with complex karyotype ≥ 5 abnormalities, 6 cases with rearrangements 3q, 5 cases with -7, 5 cases with alterations of 5q). The following table summarizes the results in terms of CR rate, DFS and OS: Conclusions: The addition of MK to the MRC cytogenetic classification refines the prognostic prediction. In our series, the dismal outcome of patients with MK is confirmed; these patients had worse prognosis than those with adverse cytogenetics without MK. Alternative treatment strategies are mandatory for MK+ patients. Supported in part by grants: GR1-01075, ECO07/90065, PI080672 and RD06/0020/0101. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


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