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T M Habermann

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PubMed2006

Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders following liver transplantation: incidence, risk factors and survival.

This study investigates retrospectively the incidence, risk factors and mortality of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) in adult orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) recipients. Among 1206 OLT recipients at a single institution, 37 developed a PTLD. The incidence of PTLD was highest during the first 18 months and relatively constant thereafter with cumulative incidence of 1.1% at 18 months and 4.7% at 15 years. The risk of PTLD was approximately 10% to 15% of the risk of death without PTLD. During the first 4 years following OLT, PTLD were predominantly related to EBV, while afterward most PTLD were EBV negative. Significant risk factors for PTLD in OLT recipients were transplantation for acute fulminant hepatitis during the first 18 months following OLT (HR=2.6, p=0.007), and rejection therapy with high-dose steroids (HR=4.5, p=0.049) and OKT3 (HR=3.9, p=0.016) during the previous year. Therapy with high-dose steroids or OKT3 (HR=3.6, p=0.0071) were also significant risk factors for PTLD-associated mortality. OLT recipients remain at risk for PTLD years after transplantation. The strong association of PTLD with rejection therapy and the worse post-PTLD prognosis among recipients of rejection therapy indicate the need to balance the risk of immunosuppression against the risk of PTLD following rejection treatment.

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PubMed2001

Cd4+ T-cell immune response to large B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma predicts patient outcome.

PURPOSE: Previous studies in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and other malignancies have suggested that the presence of host infiltrates in the tumors of these patients may predict a better outcome. This study was undertaken to determine the prognostic importance of the presence of T cells in the biopsy specimens of patients with B-cell NHL. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Seventy-two patients with diffuse large B-cell NHL were prospectively evaluated at a single institution between 1987 and 1994. The percentage of CD3+, CD3+/HLA-DR+, CD4+, CD8+, and natural killer cells was determined by flow cytometry in the pretreatment diagnostic biopsy specimen and correlated with patient outcome. RESULTS: An increase in the percentage CD4+ T cells in the pretreatment tumor biopsies significantly correlated with patient outcome. The percent of CD4+ T cells was also highly correlated with CD3+/HLA-DR+, CD45RO+, and low L-selectin (CD62L) expression, indicating that the CD4+ T cells are activated memory T-helper cells. Those patients with increased numbers of CD4+ T cells, compared with other patients, had a significantly longer 5-year failure-free survival (72% v 43%, respectively; P =.04), as well as a significantly longer 5-year overall survival (65% v 38%, respectively; P =.05). When evaluated in a multivariate model, the International Prognostic Index and more than 20% infiltrating CD4+ T cells in the pretreatment biopsy were significant independent predictors of relapse-free and overall survival. CONCLUSION: The presence of increased numbers of activated CD4+ cells in the area of B-cell diffuse large-cell NHL predicts a better prognosis. This finding provides a strong rationale for the investigation of cellular immunotherapy in B-cell NHL.

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PubMed2001

Orbital lymphoma: radiotherapy outcome and complications.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Orbital non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) have traditionally been treated with radiation. Forty-eight patients presenting with orbital NHL were treated with radiation and were evaluated for local control, overall survival, cause-specific survival, and complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-five patients had low-grade and 3 patients had intermediate-grade histologic findings. Orbit-only disease occurred in 22 patients, the conjunctiva in 16, both in five, and lacrimal gland only in five. Patient age ranged from 35 to 94 years (median, 68). Ann Arbor stages were cIEA (34), cIIEA (six), cIIIEA (two), and cIVEA (six). Radiation doses ranged between 15 and 53.8 Gy (median, 27.5 Gy). RESULTS: Follow-up ranged from 0.14 to 18.23 years (median, 5.35). Median overall survival and cause-specific survival were 6.5 and 15.5 years, respectively. Patients with clinical stage I or II disease had significantly better overall and cause-specific survival than patients with stage III or IV disease. Ten-year relapse-free survival in 41 patients with stage I or II disease was 66%. However, there was continued downward pressure on relapse-free survival out to 18 years. One local failure occurred. Twenty-five patients sustained acute complications. There were 17 minor and four major late complications. All major late complications occurred with doses more than 35 Gy. CONCLUSIONS: Excellent local control with radiation doses ranging from 15 to 30 Gy is achieved. Patients with stage I or II disease have better overall and cause-specific survival than patients with stage III or IV disease. Late relapse occurs in sites other than the treated orbit, even in patients with early-stage disease. Doses 35 Gy or higher result in significant late complications and are therefore not indicated for patients with low-grade tumors.

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PubMed2001

Bleomycin, lomustine, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisone (BLEO-CCVPP) in patients with Hodgkin's disease who relapsed after radiotherapy alone: a long-term follow-up study of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (E3481).

Thirty-three evaluable patients with Hodgkin's disease who failed radiotherapy were treated on this phase II study with bleomycin, lomustine, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisone given every 28 days for a minimum of eight courses. Twenty-five patients (76%; 95% CI=55.6-87.1%) achieved a complete remission, the median duration of which cannot yet be determined, but the probability of remaining in continuous complete remission at 10 years is.64. The median survival from entry on this study for all evaluable patients is 10 years, and 12 patients were alive at the time of this analysis with a median follow-up for them of 15.5 years. Of the 22 patients who died, 11 died of progressive or recurrent Hodgkin's disease and 11 died of other causes including 7 second primary neoplasms and at least one myocardial infarction. Both are now well known late complications of Hodgkin's disease treatment.

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PubMed2000

Testicular lymphoma is associated with a high incidence of extranodal recurrence.

BACKGROUND: Testicular lymphoma is a rare extranodal presentation of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The authors report long term follow-up information regarding a group of patients with testicular lymphoma evaluated at the Mayo Clinic and describe the outcome with special attention to patterns of recurrence. METHODS: The medical records of patients with testicular lymphoma seen at the Mayo Clinic between January 1970 and March 1993 were reviewed. Patients were included if they had evidence of testicular involvement at the time of diagnosis of lymphoma. Pathology specimens were reviewed for confirmation of diagnosis. RESULTS: Sixty-two patients with a diagnosis of testicular lymphoma were identified. Their median age was 68 years, and 60 patients underwent orchiectomy as the initial therapeutic and diagnostic procedure. Most of patients (79%) had localized or regional disease at the time of presentation. Other treatment modalities after diagnosis included radiotherapy (37%), combination chemotherapy (37%), and combination chemotherapy and radiotherapy (16%). Although 88% of patients had no residual disease after primary treatment, 80% subsequently experienced disease recurrence. There was no significant difference in the rate of recurrence, including Ann Arbor Stage I disease. Treatment did not appear to affect the recurrence rate. At a median follow-up of 2.7 years, 60% of patients had died of disease. Late recurrences were observed, and there appeared to be no plateau in the disease free survival curve. In half (51%) of the patients with disease recurrence, only extranodal locations were involved. Thirteen patients experienced recurrence in the central nervous system, 11 of whom had parenchymal lesions. In 8 of these 13 patients, the central nervous system was an isolated site of disease recurrence. CONCLUSIONS: Testicular lymphoma is a unique and aggressive extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Better treatment strategies are needed to prevent recurrences. The risk of extranodal recurrence is high, especially in the central nervous system.

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PubMed2000

Phase II trail of didemnin B in previously treated non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Study.

Patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) who fail initial therapy have a poor prognosis. We conducted a phase II study to determine the efficacy and toxicity of didemnin B, a non-myelosuppressive marine compound, in patients with NHL who relapsed or progressed after receiving one or two previous chemotherapy regimens. Fifty-one eligible patients were registered on this phase II study. Twenty-nine patients had intermediate or high grade (IG/HG) disease and 22 patients had low grade (LG) disease. Twenty-five patients received didemnin B at a dose of 6.3 mg/m2 and the remainder received 5.6 mg/m2, administered intravenously every 28 days. The patients had an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-2 and biopsy-proven relapsed disease. Objective responses were observed in two (7%) patients (one complete remission [CR] and one partial remission [PR]) with IG/HG disease and five (23%) patients (one CR and four PR) with LG disease. Patients with IG/HG disease had a median time to treatment failure (TTF) of 1.6 months and a median survival of 8.0 months. In contrast, the group with LG disease had a median TTF of 4.6 months and a median survival of 2.7 years. There were five grade V, 12 grade IV, and 57 grade III toxicities. Didemnin B appears to have modest activity in low grade NHL. However, the drug has considerable toxicity in this population of patients.

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PubMed2000

Risk of lymphoma in inflammatory bowel disease.

OBJECTIVE: Inflammatory bowel disease with a subsequent diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has been reported. There is concern that the risk of developing lymphoma will rise with increasing use of immune modifier therapy. We determined the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in an U.S. population-based inception cohort, and evaluated the association between inflammatory bowel disease and lymphoma in our referral practice. METHODS: The records of all incidence cases of inflammatory bowel disease in Olmsted County, Minnesota, between 1950 and 1993 were reviewed for the diagnosis of lymphoma. Standardized incidence ratios (observed/expected) were used to estimate relative risk. In addition, the clinical features and outcomes of all patients with inflammatory bowel disease and lymphoma seen at Mayo Clinic between 1976 and 1997 were reviewed. RESULTS: Among 454 county residents diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease, a single non-Hodgkin's lymphoma occurred in a patient with Crohn's disease. No cases were seen with ulcerative colitis. The estimated relative risk of lymphoma was 2.4 in Crohn's disease (95% confidence interval, 0.1-13), 0 in ulcerative colitis (0-6), and 1.0 in inflammatory bowel disease overall (0.03-6). Between 1976 and June 1997, 61 patients with inflammatory bowel disease and lymphoma (approximately 0.41%) were seen in the referral practice. In four patients with Crohn's disease (13%), potential neoplastic risk factors were identified-therapeutic radiation in 1, and use of purine analogs in 3 (median length of use, 11 months). CONCLUSIONS: Our population-based cohort study demonstrated that the absolute risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma remains quite small (0.01% per person-year). This risk may not exceed that in the general population. In our referral practice, immune modifier therapy could be potentially implicated in only 5% of cases of lymphoma occurring in the setting of inflammatory bowel disease.

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PubMed2000

Smoking and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes in a cohort of older women.

Although non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has not been considered to be a smoking-related malignancy, recent investigations suggest otherwise. We evaluated this association in a cohort of 37,336 women, aged 55-69 years, who reported in a mailed questionnaire in 1986 information regarding smoking history as well as demographic, medical history and dietary factors. Cancer and mortality experience through 1996 was determined by linkage to the Iowa Cancer Registry and other databases; there were 200 incident cases of NHL during the 380,231 total person-years of follow-up. Compared to never smokers, former (age-adjusted RR = 1.0; 95% CI 0.8-1.5) and current smokers (age-adjusted RR = 1.0; 95% CI 0.7-1.5) were not at elevated risk of NHL, and there was no trend with pack-years smoked (Ptrend = 0.3). Multivariate adjustment for other NHL risk factors did not alter these findings. Age-adjusted analysis by NHL subtype revealed a suggestive positive association of smoking with follicular NHL [(RRformer = 1.3; 95% CI 0.6-2.8), (RRcurrent = 1.8; 95% CI 0.8-3.8)], which strengthened after multivariate adjustment [(RRformer = 1.6; 95% CI 0.7-3.4), (RRcurrent = 2.3; 95% CI 1.0-5.0)]; there was no association for diffuse or small cleaved-cell NHL. Our study findings, which are consistent with other recent investigations, suggest that smoking may be associated with an increased risk of follicular NHL.

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PubMed2000

A randomized, placebo-controlled study of outpatient premedication for bone marrow biopsy in adults with lymphoma.

The outpatient bone marrow biopsy and aspiration (BMBA) procedure performed with local anesthetic is often poorly tolerated in adults. This prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial was designed to determine whether oral (p.o.) lorazepam and hydromorphone reduces pain and anxiety during BMBA. Eligible patients had lymphoma, had no prior BMBA, and were > or = 18 years old. Since patients had bilateral BMBA, each served as their own control. Patients were stratified by anxiety level using the Spielberger Trait Anxiety Scale and randomized to: A) placebo for the first BMBA and 2 mg lorazepam and 2 mg hydromorphone p.o. for the contralateral BMBA, or B) placebo for both BMBAS. Changes in pain and anxiety experienced between the first and second BMBA were measured by the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Spielberger State Anxiety Scale at the time of the BMBA and 24 hours later. Twenty-seven patients were enrolled and 25 were evaluable; there were 17 males and eight females. The median age was 57 years (range, 28-79 years). Overall, BMBA was reported as painful in both arms, with a median VAS pain score after the second BMBA of 3.9 (scale, 0-10) for arm A and 5.8 for arm B (P = 0.21). There was no difference in the change in pain, anxiety, or recalled anxiety between treatment arms (all P values > 0.05). The difference in the change in recalled pain was of borderline significance (P = 0.07) and consistent with benzodiazepine-induced anterograde amnesia.

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PubMed2000

Lymphadenopathy.

Lymphadenopathy can occur in any age group, in symptomatic or asymptomatic patients, and in a single site or at multiple sites. Lymphadenopathy is associated with numerous disorders. An abnormal lymph node may be observed or palpated by the patient, found by a health care worker, or discovered through radiologic evaluation. Lymphadenopathy may be a part of a complex case presentation, or the clinical cause may be straightforward. Patients with potentially curable malignant disorders may have lymphadenopathy as the first sign of their disease. This review of lymphadenopathy summarizes general considerations, discusses which patients might be considered for biopsy, reviews which nodes are most likely to be diagnostic, outlines initial diagnostic considerations on a region-by-region basis, and reviews a broad differential diagnosis for adenopathy.

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PubMed1999

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: present status and future prospects.

Both management and prognosis vary with the many different varieties of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In large-cell disease, age and other risk factors influence prognosis. Relapses may respond to chemotherapy plus autologous bone marrow transplantation. Therapy with antibodies to tumor cells has made its debut, but its role remains unclear.

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