scholarly journals Analysis of Overall Survival According to Bone Marrow Aspiration Results in Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Patients

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-190
Author(s):  
Jung Yoon Choi ◽  
Ka-Won Kang ◽  
Byung-Hyun Lee ◽  
Eun Sang Yu ◽  
Dae Sik Kim ◽  
...  
1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1595-1600 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Vandenberghe ◽  
R Pearce ◽  
G Taghipour ◽  
L Fouillard ◽  
A H Goldstone

PURPOSE Treatment of selected patients with poor-prognosis lymphomas with high-dose chemotherapy and marrow or peripheral stem-cell rescue improves prognosis. A second course of myeloablative chemotherapy has been given to some patients, but few data are available on the indications, morbidity, and overall survival associated with this approach. This study was undertaken to evaluate morbidity and identify subgroups of patients who may benefit from a second transplant. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty-four patients with lymphoma given two cycles of myeloablative chemotherapy and entered onto the European Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant (EBMT) registry between 1982 and 1995 were included in this study: Hodgkin's disease (HD), n = 12; intermediate/high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (HG-NHL), n = 17; and low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (LG-NHL), n = 5. The reason for second transplant, status at transplant, conditioning regimen, morbidity, and both progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were assessed. RESULTS The second procedure was performed for the following reasons: (1) elective double procedure in four patients, (2) relapse after first transplant in 20, (3) partial remission (PR) after first transplant in eight, and (4) refractory disease after first transplant in two. The OS rate at 2 years for patients who underwent two transplants (estimated from the date of second transplant) was 49%, with a median follow-up time of 44 months. The OS rate at 2 years by histologic subtype was as follows; HD, 50%; HG-NHL, 60%; and LG-NHL, 0%. Seven of 15 patients with HD or HG-NHL who relapsed after they had achieved a posttransplant complete remission (CR) remain in CR 13 to 36 months after the second transplant, compared with two of 10 patients in CR (at 6 and 19 months after second transplant) who achieved a PR or had refractory disease after the first transplant. There were eight deaths (24%) before 3 months, of which three (9%) were transplant-related and the remainder due to persistent disease. Three late toxic deaths occurred: two of cardiovascular disease and one of secondary leukemia. CONCLUSION Selected patients with HD and HG-NHL whose disease recurs after one transplant may benefit from a second transplant. Patients with refractory disease and LG-NHL did not benefit from a second transplant.


1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
M J Terol ◽  
A López-Guillermo ◽  
F Bosch ◽  
N Villamor ◽  
M C Cid ◽  
...  

PURPOSE To study the expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) by non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and to assess its correlation with disease extension and prognosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS ICAM-1 (CD54-IOL54) expression was studied in 70 patients (35 male/35 female; median age, 56 years) with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma from a single institution. Immunostaining was performed using a streptavidine-biotin alkaline phosphatase method and ICAM-1 expression was evaluated in a semiquantitative manner. The histologic distribution of the cases was the following: small lymphocytic, five cases; follicular, 14; mantle cell, five; diffuse large cell, 41; and T lymphoblastic, five. Forty patients (57%) were in stage IV, bulky disease was observed in 25 patients (36%), and extranodal involvement in 48 patients (69%). RESULTS ICAM-1 expression was negative (-) in 14 patients (20%), weak (+) in 21 (30%), positive (++) in 30 (43%), and strongly positive ( ) in five (7%). No significant relationship was found between ICAM-1 expression and the lymphoma histologic subtype. Patients with negative or weak ICAM-1 expression had more frequently disseminated (stage IV) disease (74% v 40%; P = .007), extranodal involvement (86% v 51%; P = .004), and bone marrow infiltration (57% v 26%; P = .015) than the remainders. Positive ICAM-1 patients had survival rates significantly better than those in whom ICAM-1 was negative or weakly expressed [2-year overall survival: 77% v 50%, respectively; P < .025]. In a multivariate study, ICAM-1 (P = .005) maintained, along with histologic subtype (P = .001) and the international prognostic index (IPI) (P = .056), its importance for predicting survival. Finally, when the group of aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients was analyzed, ICAM-1 expression inversely correlated with advanced stage (P = .025), extranodal involvement (P = .01), and bone marrow infiltration (P = .01), complete response (CR) achievement (65% v 32%; P = .025), and overall survival (70% v 26% at 2 years; P < .005). CONCLUSION In lymphoma patients, ICAM-1 expression correlates with lymphoma dissemination and is useful to assess prognosis.


Blood ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Hermine ◽  
C Haioun ◽  
E Lepage ◽  
MF d'Agay ◽  
J Briere ◽  
...  

Abstract Little is known about the expression of bcl-2 protein in intermediate and high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and its clinical and prognostic significance. We performed immunohistochemical analysis of bcl-2 expression in tumoral tissue sections of 348 patients with high or intermediate grade NHL. These patients were uniformly treated with adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, vindesine, bleomycin, and prednisone (ACVBP) in the induction phase of the LNH87 protocol. Fifty eight cases were excluded due to inadequate staining. Of the 290 remaining patients, 131 (45%) disclosed homogeneous positivity (high bcl-2 expression) in virtually all tumor cells, whereas 65 (23%) were negative and 94 (32%) exhibited intermediate staining. High bcl-2 expression was more frequent in B-cell NHL (109 of 214, 51%) than in T- cell NHL (6 of 35, 17%) (P = .0004), and was heterogeneously distributed among the different histological subtypes. Further analysis was performed on the 151 patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (centroblastic and immunoblastic) to assess the clinical significance and potential prognostic value of bcl-2 expression in the most frequent and homogeneous immunohistological subgroup. High bcl-2 expression, found in 44% of these patients (67 of 151), was more frequently associated with III-IV stage disease (P = .002). Reduced disease-free survival (DFS) (P < .01) and overall survival (P < .05) were demonstrated in the patients with high bcl-2 expression. Indeed, the 3-year estimates of DFS and overall survival were 60% and 61%, respectively (high bcl-2 expression) versus 82% and 78%, respectively (negative/intermediate bcl-2 expression). A multivariate regression analysis confirmed the independent effect of bcl-2 protein expression on DFS. Thus bcl-2 protein expression, as demonstrated in routinely paraffin-embedded tissue, appears to be predictive of poor DFS, in agreement with the role of bcl-2 in chemotherapy-induced apoptosis. It might be considered as a new independent biologic prognostic parameter, which, especially in diffuse large B-cell NHL, could aid in the identification of patient risk groups.


Blood ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Hermine ◽  
C Haioun ◽  
E Lepage ◽  
MF d'Agay ◽  
J Briere ◽  
...  

Little is known about the expression of bcl-2 protein in intermediate and high grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and its clinical and prognostic significance. We performed immunohistochemical analysis of bcl-2 expression in tumoral tissue sections of 348 patients with high or intermediate grade NHL. These patients were uniformly treated with adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, vindesine, bleomycin, and prednisone (ACVBP) in the induction phase of the LNH87 protocol. Fifty eight cases were excluded due to inadequate staining. Of the 290 remaining patients, 131 (45%) disclosed homogeneous positivity (high bcl-2 expression) in virtually all tumor cells, whereas 65 (23%) were negative and 94 (32%) exhibited intermediate staining. High bcl-2 expression was more frequent in B-cell NHL (109 of 214, 51%) than in T- cell NHL (6 of 35, 17%) (P = .0004), and was heterogeneously distributed among the different histological subtypes. Further analysis was performed on the 151 patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (centroblastic and immunoblastic) to assess the clinical significance and potential prognostic value of bcl-2 expression in the most frequent and homogeneous immunohistological subgroup. High bcl-2 expression, found in 44% of these patients (67 of 151), was more frequently associated with III-IV stage disease (P = .002). Reduced disease-free survival (DFS) (P < .01) and overall survival (P < .05) were demonstrated in the patients with high bcl-2 expression. Indeed, the 3-year estimates of DFS and overall survival were 60% and 61%, respectively (high bcl-2 expression) versus 82% and 78%, respectively (negative/intermediate bcl-2 expression). A multivariate regression analysis confirmed the independent effect of bcl-2 protein expression on DFS. Thus bcl-2 protein expression, as demonstrated in routinely paraffin-embedded tissue, appears to be predictive of poor DFS, in agreement with the role of bcl-2 in chemotherapy-induced apoptosis. It might be considered as a new independent biologic prognostic parameter, which, especially in diffuse large B-cell NHL, could aid in the identification of patient risk groups.


1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
L B Travis ◽  
J Weeks ◽  
R E Curtis ◽  
J T Chaffey ◽  
M Stovall ◽  
...  

PURPOSE Low-dose total body irradiation (TBI) is used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and several other malignancies. Large volumes of bone marrow and other tissue receive considerable exposure, but few studies have quantified late carcinogenic sequelae. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cohort of 61 2-year survivors of NHL treated initially with low-dose TBI was monitored for second cancer occurrence. Data on primary and subsequent therapy were collected, and cumulative dose of radiation to active bone marrow (ABM) (median, 5.2 Gy) was reconstructed. RESULTS Thirteen second primary cancers occurred. Four patients developed acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL), which represents a relative risk (RR) of 117 (95% confidence interval [CI], 31.5 to 300) compared with population rates. A fifth patient was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). All five patients with secondary hematologic malignancies subsequently received salvage treatment, with either alkylating agents alone (n = 1) or combined modality therapy (CMT) (n = 4). Overall, eight solid tumors were observed (RR = 2.0; 95% CI, 0.9 to 4.0). The 15-year cumulative risks of all second cancers and secondary ANLL were 37% and 17%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Despite the small number of subjects, a considerable risk of leukemia was observed among patients treated with low-dose TBI in combination with CMT including alkylating agents. Based on these results, approximately eight to nine excess ANLLs might be expected to occur among 100 NHL patients treated with low-dose TBI and salvage treatment and followed-up for 15 years.


1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3128-3135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan W. Friedberg ◽  
Donna Neuberg ◽  
Richard M. Stone ◽  
Edwin Alyea ◽  
Haddy Jallow ◽  
...  

PURPOSE: The absolute risk of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) after autologous bone marrow transplant (ABMT) for non–Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) exceeds 5% in several reported series. We report the outcome of a large cohort of patients who developed MDS after ABMT for NHL. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Between December 1982 and December 1997, 552 patients underwent ABMT for NHL, with a uniform ablative regimen of cyclophosphamide and total body irradiation followed by reinfusion of obtained marrow purged with monoclonal antibodies. MDS was strictly defined, using the French-American-British classification system, as requiring bone marrow dysplasia in at least two cell lines, with associated unexplained persistent cytopenias. RESULTS: Forty-one patients developed MDS at a median of 47 months after ABMT. The incidence of MDS was 7.4%, and actuarial incidence at 10 years is 19.8%, without evidence of a plateau. Patients who developed MDS received significantly fewer numbers of cells reinfused per kilogram at ABMT (P = .0003). Karyotypes were performed on bone marrow samples of 33 patients, and 29 patients had either del(7) or complex abnormalities. The median survival from diagnosis of MDS was 9.4 months. The International Prognostic Scoring System for MDS failed to predict outcome in these patients. Thirteen patients underwent allogeneic BMT as treatment for MDS, and all have died of BMT-related complications (11 patients) or relapse (two patients), with a median survival of only 1.8 months. CONCLUSION: Long-term follow-up demonstrates a high incidence of MDS after ABMT for NHL. The prognosis for these patients is uniformly poor, and novel treatment strategies are needed for this fatal disorder.


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