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- Alvegård, Thor, et al.
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Cellular DNA content and prognosis of high-grade soft tissue sarcoma: the Scandinavian Sarcoma Group experience
- 1990
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Ingår i: Journal of Clinical Oncology. - 1527-7755. ; 8:3, s. 538-547
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The nuclear DNA content of 148 high-grade soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities and trunk was determined by flow cytometry, using tumor material from paraffin-embedded tissue. The patients were part of a prospective randomized clinical trial on the efficacy of adjuvant single-agent chemotherapy with doxorubicin. Chemotherapy did not improve the metastasis-free survival (MFS). After a median follow-up time of 48 months (range, 2 to 97), a multivariate analysis of prognostic factors for developing metastatic disease was performed. DNA aneuploidy was found to be an independent prognostic risk factor in addition to histologic malignancy grade IV, intratumoral vascular invasion, tumor size over 10 cm, and male sex. Patients with none or one risk factor had a 5-year MFS of 79%, with two risk factors 65%, with three risk factors 43%, and with four and five risk factors 0%. About one half (78 of 148) of the patients with three factors or less belonged to a group with a MFS over 60%. The combination of different risk factors, including DNA aneuploidy, seems to be a useful prognostic model for soft tissue sarcomas, which could be of value to select high-risk patients for further trials with adjunctive therapy.
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- Kristoffersson, Ulf, et al.
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Prognostic implication of cytogenetic findings in 106 patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- 1987
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Ingår i: Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0165-4608. ; 25:1, s. 55-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The cytogenetic findings in samples from 106 patients with non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL), histopathologically classified according to the Kiel classification, have been correlated with survival time. Clonal chromosomal abnormalities were found in 60 patients, and only normal karyotypes in ten. The chromosome analysis of the remaining samples failed. The failures did not differ in survival compared with the cytogenetically successful cases, indicating that this group is not a prognostic entity within NHL. The cytogenetic findings were classified in six ways in order to evaluate the prognostic value of the cytogenetic pattern. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that presence of clonal chromosome abnormalities and the number of aberrations both were important prognostic factors independent of histopathology, whereas, the modal chromosome number, presence of translocations, or unidentified marker chromosomes were not. Some characteristic chromosome abnormalities were correlated with survival time: Patients with a 1p+ marker or +7 had a significantly shorter survival time than patients with normal karyotypes only (NN). Patients with +3, +12, 6q-, i(17q), and t(14;18)(q32;q21) did not differ significantly from the NN group.
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