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ArticleMedical oncology (Northwood, London, England)2014

Prognostic significance of serum beta-2 microglobulin level in Hodgkin lymphoma treated with ABVD-based therapy.

Yuki Nakajima, Naoto Tomita, Reina Watanabe, Yasufumi Ishiyama, Eri Yamamoto, Daisuke Ishibashi, Megumi Itabashi, Satoshi Koyama, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Ayumi Numata and 9 more

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Article in Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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19 authors at 8 institutions in 1 country.

Yuki NakajimaDepartment of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan, yuki1234@yokohama-cu.ac.jp.
Naoto Tomita
Reina Watanabe
Yasufumi Ishiyama
Eri Yamamoto
Daisuke Ishibashi
Megumi Itabashi
Satoshi Koyama
Hiroyuki Takahashi
Ayumi Numata
Hirotaka Takasaki
Rika Kawasaki
Hideyuki Kuwabara
Masatsugu Tanaka
Chizuko Hashimoto
Katsumichi Fujimaki
Rika Sakai
Shigeki Motomura
Yoshiaki Ishigatsubo
Yokohama City University · JPKanagawa Prefectural Hospital Organization · JPYokohama City University Medical Center · JPFujisawa City Hospital · JPKanagawa Cancer CenterShizuoka Red Cross Hospital · JPHiratsuka City Hospital · JPYamato Municipal Hospital · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The levels of serum beta-2 microglobulin (β2MG) are determined mainly from lymphoid tissue. To examine its prognostic value in Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), we conducted a retrospective analysis. We analyzed 67 patients with HL diagnosed and treated at seven institutes of the Yokohama City University Hematology Group between 1998 and 2011. The patients included 40 males and 27 females with a median age of 41 years (range 16-81 years). The HL subtypes were nodular sclerosis classical HL in 37 patients, mixed cellular classical HL in 23, lymphocyte-rich classical HL in 6, and nodular lymphocyte-predominant HL in 1. The 4-year overall survival (OS) rate of all 67 patients was 89 %. Patients with β2MG levels ≥ 2.5 mg/L (n = 18) showed inferior progression-free survival (PFS; 4-year PFS rate, 42 %) and inferior OS (4-year OS rate, 60 %) compared to patients who had β2MG levels <2.5 mg/L (n = 49; 4-year PFS rate, 87 %; 4-year OS rate, 98 %; P < 0.001). In multivariate analysis, only a serum β2MG level ≥ 2.5 mg/L was a significant adverse prognostic factor in regard to PFS (P = 0.04; relative risk 3.57). However, it was not significant prognostic factor for OS (P = 0.16) in the multivariate analysis. The serum β2MG level at diagnosis is a useful prognostic marker in patients with HL.

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