The HOVON68 CLL trial revisited: performance status and comorbidity affect survival in elderly patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

abstract：:Fludarabine is an active agent for the treatment of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM) and its combination with cyclophosphamide has been effective in many patients with low-grade lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Based on these data, we administered the combination of fludarabine (25 mg/m2 i.v. day 1-3) an...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Dimopoulos MA,Hamilos G,Efstathiou E,Siapkaras I,Matsouka C,Gika D,Grigoraki V,Papadimitriou C,Mitsibounas D,Anagnostopoulos N

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalidomide and its analogue lenalidomide are potent anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic and immunomodulatory drugs, successfully used for the treatment of hematological cancers, in particular multiple myeloma (MM). Both drugs reveal a dual mechanism of action: they target tumour cells by direct cytotoxicity and, indir...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Vallet S,Palumbo A,Raje N,Boccadoro M,Anderson KC

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with multiple myeloma who are refractory or intolerant to both bortezomib and lenalidomide have a poor prognosis. Next-generation therapies carfilzomib and pomalidomide have shown promising activity in this dual refractory population. Here we describe the clinical characteristics and ascertain the effects of ...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Wang TF,Ahluwalia R,Fiala MA,Trinkaus KM,Cox DP,Jaenicke M,Moliske CC,Carson KR,Wildes TM,Tomasson MH,Stockerl-Goldstein KE,Vij R

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a clonal malignant disease characterized by an increasing number of immature myeloid cells arrested at various stages of granulocytic and monocytic differentiation. The stage of the blockage defines distinct AML subtypes (AML1 to AML5 are the most frequent ones). There is increasing evi...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Gadhoum Z,Delaunay J,Maquarre E,Durand L,Lancereaux V,Qi J,Robert-Lezenes J,Chomienne C,Smadja-Joffe F

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High dose cytosine arabinoside (ARA-C) has produced long term relapse free survival in 26% to 49% of patients when used as consolidation therapy of acute non-lymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) in first remission. However, the optimal consolidation regimen has not been defined. In this pilot study we attempted to confirm and ...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Stein RS,Greer JP,Flexner JM,Goodman S,Wolff SN

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether etoposide might be a suitable alternative to anthracyclins for the treatment of elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in whom anthracyclins are contraindicated. In total, 88 patients over 60 years old were treated in our department between 1988 and 2000 for de novo or secondary AML...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Chaoui D,Peffault De Latour R,Legrand O,Marie JP

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) represents the major barrier to successful allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Positive and negative selection studies have unequivocally demonstrated that donor T cells are responsible for the induction phase of GVHD. Inhibition of the early steps of T cell antigen recognition lea...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Schlegel PG,Chao NJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consolidation chemotherapy in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) aims at eradicating residual leukemic cells and mostly comprises high-dose cytarabine with or without the addition of anthracyclines, including daunorubicin. Immunogenic cell death (ICD) may contribute to the efficacy of anthracyclines in solid cancer, but the...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Aurelius J,Möllgård L,Kiffin R,Ewald Sander F,Nilsson S,Thorén FB,Hellstrand K,Martner A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age-adjusted incidence of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is markedly higher in Saudi Arabia than in the USA, and accounts for 10.5% of all neoplasias in children aged 15 years or older in Saudi Arabia. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection has been suspected to cause high HL incidence in developing countries. To investigate...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Al-Kuraya K,Narayanappa R,Al-Dayel F,El-Solh H,Ezzat A,Ismail H,Belgaumi A,Bavi P,Atizado V,Sauter G,Simon R

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gain-of-function EZH2 mutation promotes H3K27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) and lymphoid transformation of germinal center (GC) derived B-cell lymphoma, such as GCB diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), but not activated B-cell (ABC) DLBCL. It is unclear whether expression levels of EZH2 and consequential H3K27me3 vary b...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Zhou Z,Gao J,Popovic R,Wolniak K,Parimi V,Winter JN,Licht JD,Chen YH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) is a unique lymphoid malignancy with an immunosuppressed tumor microenvironment. Increased PD-L1 expression on the malignant Hodgkin Reed Sternberg (HRS) cells due to genetic amplification at chromosome 9p24.1 is likely one of the primary mechanisms for this unique biology. For this reas...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Khurana A,Armand P,Ansell SM

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapy-related changes of the bone marrow fiber content remain a controversial issue in hematopathology. This conflict of opinion firstly depends on difficulties to determine the quantity of fibers exactly (semiquantitative grading, morphometry, reference to cellularity). Secondly, the appropriate selection of patien...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Thiele J,Kvasnicka HM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in Latin America is not well known. This Chilean study included 207 consecutive cases of NHL diagnosed at five cancer centers in the capital, Santiago, and one center in Viña del Mar. All cases were reviewed and classified independently by five expert hematopa...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Cabrera ME,Martinez V,Nathwani BN,Muller-Hermelink HK,Diebold J,Maclennan KA,Armitage J,Weisenburger DD

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary intensive therapies are effective for the majority of pediatric T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients, thus current challenge is to identify patients who may benefit from alternative treatment modalities. Previously, we demonstrated that human leukemic cell growth in the severe combined im...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Uckun FM,Waurzyniak BJ,Sather HN,Sensel MG,Chelstrom L,Nachman J,Gaynon PS,Bostrom B,Ek O,Sarquis M,Steinherz PG,Reaman GH

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen patients (pts) with highly refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) 10 pts with de novo AML and 3 with blast crisis of chronic myeloid leukemia were treated with carboplatin (CP) 150 mg/m2/day through continuous IV infusion for 7 consecutive days. Seven of them received CP at least as third or more line therap...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Delmer A,Bauduer F,Vekhoff A,Rio B,Cymbalista F,Delmas-Marsalet B,Blanc CM,Cadiou M,Broca M,Renoux M

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anamorsin is a cell-death-defying factor, which was originally isolated as a molecule that conferred resistance to apoptosis induced by growth factor starvation. In order to evaluate anamorsin expression levels in malignant lymphoma, we immunostained paraffin-embedded sections with anti-anamorsin monoclonal antibodies...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Shizusawa T,Shibayama H,Murata S,Saitoh Y,Sugimoto Y,Matsumura I,Ogawa H,Sugiyama H,Fukuhara S,Hino M,Kanamaru A,Yamauchi A,Aozasa K,Kanakura Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of the combination of fludarabine 30/mg/m2 + cytarabine 2g/m2 followed by the administration of G-CSF to achieve a complete remission (CR) in patients with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). We treated twelve patients in first relapse, overall 10 pati...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Montillo M,Tedeschi A,Centurioni R,Leoni P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bryostatin, a macrocyclic lactone and protein kinase C (PKC) modulator, has been shown to have differentiation and anti-tumor activity against several leukemia cell lines in vitro. In this study, we demonstrated Bryostatin-induced differentiation in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) cells, characterized by a...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Thomas A,Pepper C,Hoy T,Bentley P

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quinazoline antifolate N-(5-[N-(3,4-dihydro-2-methyl-4-oxoquinazolin-6-ylmethyl)-N- methylamino]-2-thenoyl)-L-glutamic acid (ZD1694; Tomudex) is a potent inhibitor of thymidylate synthase and causes cell death through disruption of DNA synthesis and repair by blocking the obligatory thymidine nucleotide synthesis....

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Ek O,Reaman GH,Crankshaw DL,Chelstrom LM,Myers DE,Uckun FM

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the microRNA transcriptome following dexa- methasone treatment of the acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) cell line RS4;11 showed a global down-regulation of microRNA levels. MIR17HG was rapidly down-regulated following treatment, with chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) analysis demonstrating the promoter t...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Harada M,Pokrovskaja-Tamm K,Söderhäll S,Heyman M,Grander D,Corcoran M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) has been used as treatment for immunoglobulin light-chain (AL) amyloidosis for over two decades with improving outcomes; however, the majority of patients are not candidates for this therapy at diagnosis. Novel agents such as immunomodulatory drugs, proteasome inhibitors, an...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Sidiqi MH,Gertz MA

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS) is an aggressive neoplasm of which fewer than 25 cases have been reported in the world literature. This malignancy is difficult to diagnose because of its rarity, and because of the subtle histopathologic features that distinguish IDCS from similar tumors arising from reti...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Olnes MJ,Nicol T,Duncan M,Bohlman M,Erlich R

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We addressed the prognostic impact of cell-of-origin (COO), MYC and Bcl-2 overexpression as well as isolated MYC rearrangement among 111 patients with limited stage diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) treated with consolidative radiation therapy (RT) after a metabolic complete response to immunochemotherapy. With a ...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Augustyn A,Medeiros LJ,Ludmir EB,Gunther J,Fang P,Li S,Ok CY,Bankston ME,Verma V,Pasalic D,Ahmed S,Nastoupil LJ,Westin JR,Strati P,Neelapu SS,Nair R,Steiner RE,Iyer SP,Rodriguez A,Fayad LE,Flowers CR,Dabaja BS,

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the specific genetic alterations in nasal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (N-NK/T-L), the assay of restriction landmark genomic scanning (RLGS), a genome-wide method, was used to investigate a pair of genomic DNA from N-NK/T-L cells and peripheral blood leukocytes of the same patient. The intensified spots in...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Ye Y,Li T,Zhang B,Guo Z

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a distinct variant of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma initially described in HIV-positive patients. Several studies have reported the occurrence of PBL in HIV-negative patients, but comparative data are lacking. The goal of this study was to compare the characteristics of HIV-positive and...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Castillo JJ,Winer ES,Stachurski D,Perez K,Jabbour M,Milani C,Colvin G,Butera JN

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Chronic Malignancies Working Party held a preceptorship meeting in Turin, Italy on 25-26 September 2014, to discuss the role of stem cell transplantation (SCT) in the treatment of multiple myeloma and other plasma cell disorders. Scientists and clinicians worki...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Bruno B,Auner HW,Gahrton G,Garderet L,Festuccia M,Ladetto M,Lemoli RM,Massaia M,Morris C,Palumbo A,Schönland S,Boccadoro M,Kröger N

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, combination chemotherapy with melphalan and prednisone (MP) has remained the most widely accepted treatment option for elderly patients with multiple myeloma (MM). However, since the availability of new and more active drugs, several groups have compared in several phase III trials the efficacy and saf...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： De La Rubia J,Sanz MA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasculitis may accompany neoplasias and be of paraneoplastic type or associated with drugs used in patient treatment. We evaluated skin biopsies of twenty-eight cases with vasculitis accompanying leukemias reviewed and clinical outcome was evaluated. Eleven of the 28 cases had paraneoplastic vasculitis and 17 had vasc...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Paydaş S,Zorludemir S,Sahin B

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strategies for reversing graft failure (GF) after allogeneic stem cell transplant (SCT) depend on the options available in each situation. GF was reported in 16 Spanish institutions from January 2006 to July 2011. Primary GF was defined as an absolute neutrophil count (ANC) > 0.5 × 10(9)/L not reached by day + 28 afte...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Ferrà C,Sanz J,Díaz-Pérez MA,Morgades M,Gayoso J,Cabrera JR,Villaescusa T,Sampol MA,Fernández-Avilés F,Solano C,Ortín M,Duarte R,Cuesta M,Heras I,de la Serna J,Moraleda JM,Barrenetxea C,González-Vicent M,Sanz G,Ribe

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of monoclonal expansions of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) or the T-cell receptor-gamma (TCRgamma) chain genes is an important supplement for the diagnosis of the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs). Detection of monoclonality by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method has offered an efficient approach f...

journal_title：Leukemia & lymphoma

authors： Chuang SS,Lin CN,Shen FC,Liao PJ,Liao YL,Chang JH,Tsai YC,Cho CY,Huang W

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00