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Clinical outcome of patients with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and an initial leukaemic blood blast count of less than 1000 per microliter.

Abstract：

BACKGROUND:One of the strongest predictive factors for therapy outcome in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), treated according to ALL-BFM protocols, is the response to initial prednisone treatment. Prednisone response is characterized by the peripheral leukaemic blast count. The threshold value for the characterisation as good or poor prednisone response is 1000 blasts/microliter on day eight of initial prednisone treatment. It is frequently being discussed, whether patients with ALL that initially present with < 1000 blasts/microliter and still show < 1000 blasts/microliter by day eight of treatment, have the same therapy outcome as prednisone good-responders with initially >/= 1000 blasts/microliter. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We evaluated all patients included in the ALL-BFM 90 study showing good prednisone response. This group included 660 patients presenting with < 1000 blasts/microliter at diagnosis. We compared these patients with the prednisone good-responders that initially presented with >/= 1000 blasts/microliter. In addition we analysed all patients who showed an increasing blast count within the threshold of 1000 blasts/microliter by day eight of treatment. RESULTS:Children presenting with ALL and < 1000 blasts/microliter at diagnosis showed a small but significantly better outcome than prednisone good-responders with initially >/= 1000 blasts/microliter (5 year pEFS 0.86 vs. 0.81, P value 0.0064). If analyzed by treatment group, no significant differences were found. Patients with < 1000 blasts/microliter on day eight of treatment but increasing blast count from diagnosis until day eight did not perform worse. CONCLUSION:The prognostic value of the prednisone response is not restricted to childhood ALL patients presenting with >/= 1000 blasts/microliter at diagnosis, but retains its strength as a strong predictor of treatment outcome also in patients with < 1000 blasts/microliter at diagnosis.

journal_name

Klin Padiatr

journal_title

Klinische Padiatrie

authors

Lauten M,Stanulla M,Zimmermann M,Welte K,Riehm H,Schrappe M

doi

10.1055/s-2001-16848

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-07-01 00:00:00

pages

169-74

issue

eissn

0300-8630

issn

1439-3824

journal_volume

213

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Clinical outcome of patients with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and an initial leukaemic blood blast count of less than 1000 per microliter.