The prognostic significance of minimal residual disease in the early phases of chemotherapy in dogs with high-grade B-cell lymphoma
The prognostic significance of minimal residual disease in the early phases of chemotherapy in dogs with high-grade B-cell lymphoma
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DOI:
10.1016/j.tvjl.2012.07.013
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发表时间:
2013-03-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Tsujimoto, Hajime
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作者:
Sato, Masahiko;Yamzaki, Jumpei;Tsujimoto, Hajime
The prognostic significance of minimal residual disease (MRD) in the early phases of chemotherapy was examined in 36 dogs with multicentric high-grade B-cell lymphoma. Sequences of immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene fragments from lymphoma cells were amplified and used to design allele-specific primers and probes for real-time PCR. The dogs were treated with a 6-month modified version of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chemotherapy protocol (UW-25) and evaluated for the MRD level at weeks 6 and II of UW-25.Of the 31 dogs that remained on the protocol at week 11, 14 were found to be MRD negative (= 10 tumour cells/10(5) PBMCs). The progression-free survival of the dogs with MRD-negative status at week 11 (median, 337 days) was significantly longer than that of the MRD-positive dogs at the same time point (median, 196 days) (P = 0.0002). These results indicate the clinical significance of MRD as a prognostic marker in the early phase of chemotherapy. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.