The different roles of molecular classification according to upfront autologous stem cell transplantation in advanced-stage diffuse large B cell lymphoma patients with elevated serum lactate dehydrogenase

Yu Ri Kim, Soo Jeong Kim, June Won Cheong, Deok Hwan Yang, Hyewon Lee, Hyeon Seok Eom, Yong Oh Sung, Hyo Jung Kim, Hye Jin Kang, Won Sik Lee, Yong Park, Woo Ick Yang, Yoo Hong Min, Jin Seok Kim

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    Abstract

    The non-germinal center B cell (non-GCB) subtype of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is more related to poor prognosis than the GCB subtype. To investigate the role of molecular classification according to upfront autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT), we retrospectively evaluated 219 newly diagnosed high-risk DLBCL patients. Eighty-one patients were in the ASCT group, and 138 patients were in the non-ASCT group. The ASCT group yielded significantly better overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) than the non-ASCT group (p = 0.038 and p = 0.007), and patients with the non-GCB subtype were more related to inferior PFS than those with the GCB subtype (p = 0.020). After performing age-matching by using propensity scores, upfront ASCT continued to show better OS and PFS than non-ASCT (p = 0.046 and p = 0.026). In the non-ASCT group, the non-GCB subtype showed worse OS and PFS than the GCB subtype (p = 0.039 and p = 0.007). Patients who achieved complete response showed differences in OS and PFS according to molecular subtype (p = 0.007 and p = 0.002). In the ASCT group, there were no significant differences in OS and PFS according to molecular classification (p = 0.277 and p = 0.892). In conclusion, non-GCB subtype DLBCL patients showed poor OS and PFS in the non-ASCT group while they did not show clinical significance in the ASCT group. This suggests the possibility that upfront ASCT may improve the poor prognosis of non-GCB subtype in high-risk DLBCL.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1491-1501
    Number of pages11
    JournalAnnals of Hematology
    Volume95
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016 Sept 1

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This study was presented in the form of poster presentation at the 56th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, San Francisco, CA, December 6–9, 2014. This work was supported by a faculty research grant from Yonsei University College of Medicine (6-2014-0096).

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

    Keywords

    • Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
    • Diffuse large B cell lymphoma
    • Germinal center B cell
    • Non-germinal center B cell
    • Rituximab

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Hematology

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