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- Title:
Rearrangements of MYC gene facilitate risk stratification in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with rituximab-CHOP.
- Document type:
- Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Author(s):
- Tzankov, Alexandar; Xu-Monette, Zijun Y; Gerhard, Marc; Visco, Carlo; Dirnhofer, Stephan; Gisin, Nora; Dybkaer, Karen; Orazi, Attilio; Bhagat, Govind; Richards, Kristy L; Hsi, Eric D; Choi, William W L; van Krieken, J Han; Ponzoni, Maurilio; Ferreri, Andrés J M; Ye, Qing; Winter, Jane N; Farnen, John P; Piris, Miguel A; Møller, Michael B; You, M James; McDonnell, Timothy; Medeiros, L Jeffrey; Young, Ken H
- Abstract:
- In order to address the debatable prognostic role of MYC rearrangements in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients treated with rituximab, cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone, we evaluated MYC rearrangements by fluorescence in situ hybridization in 563 cases using break-apart probes and IGH/MYC dual-fusion probes. Concurrent BCL2 and BCL6 aberrations were also assessed. Data were correlated with clinicopathological variables and prognostic parameters. MYC rearrangements were observed in 39/432 evaluable cases (9%), including 4 rearrangements detectable only with the dual-fusion probes, 15 detectable only with the break-apart probes and 20 detectable with both dual-fusion probes and break-apart probes. MYC rearrangements correlated with germinal center B-cell origin (P=0.02), MYC protein expression (P=0.032), and larger tumor mass size (P=0.0003). Patients with MYC rearrangements were more likely to be treatment resistant (P<0.0001). All types of MYC rearrangements were associated with poorer disease-specific survival, that is, 20/39 dead, median disease-specific survival 42 months, compared with 98/393 dead among the non-rearranged cases, median disease-specific survival not reached (P=0.0002). Cases with MYC rearrangements that overexpressed MYC protein were at risk with respect to disease-specific survival independent of the International Prognostic Index (P=0.046 and P<0.001, respectively). Presence of concurrent BCL2 aberrations but not of BCL6 aberrations was prognostically additive. Radiotherapy seemed to diminish the prognostic effects of MYC rearrangements in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients since only 2/10 irradiated patients with MYC rearrangements died of/with disease, compared with 16/28 non-irradiated patients with MYC rearrangements. We conclude that MYC rearrangements add prognostic information for individual risk estimation and such cases might represent a distinct, biologically determined disease subgroup.
- Journal title abbreviation:
- Mod Pathol
- Year:
- 2014
- Journal volume:
- 27
- Journal issue:
- 7
- Pages contribution:
- 958-71
- Language:
- eng
- Fulltext / DOI:
- doi:10.1038/modpathol.2013.214
- Pubmed ID:
- http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24336156
- Print-ISSN:
- 0893-3952
- TUM Institution:
- Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene
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