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ArticleOncotarget2018

Hepatitis C virus infection is an independent prognostic factor in follicular lymphoma.

Joji Shimono, Hiroaki Miyoshi, Takeharu Kato, Takeshi Sugio, Kohta Miyawaki, Tomohiko Kamimura, Takuto Miyagishima, Tetsuya Eto, Yoshitaka Imaizumi, Koji Kato and 5 more

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Article in Oncotarget, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
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What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Joji ShimonoDepartment of Pathology, Kurume University, School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
Hiroaki MiyoshiDepartment of Pathology, Kurume University, School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
Takeharu KatoDepartment of Hematology, Sasebo City General Hospital, Sasebo, Japan.
Takeshi SugioDepartment of Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan.
Kohta MiyawakiDepartment of Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan.
Tomohiko KamimuraDepartment of Hematology, Hara Sanshin Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
Takuto MiyagishimaDepartment of Hematology, Kushiro Rosai Hospital, Kushiro, Japan.
Tetsuya EtoDepartment of Hematology, Hamanomachi Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan.
Yoshitaka ImaizumiDepartment of Hematology, Atomic Bomb Disease and Hibakusha Medicine Unit, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.
Koji KatoDepartment of Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan.
Koji NagafujiDepartment of Hematology, Kurume University, School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
Koichi AkashiDepartment of Medicine and Biosystemic Science, Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan.
Masao SetoDepartment of Pathology, Kurume University, School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
Takanori TeshimaDepartment of Hematology, Hokkaido University Faculty of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
Koichi OhshimaDepartment of Pathology, Kurume University, School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
Kurume University · JPKyushu University · JPHokkaido University · JPNagasaki University · JPHamanomachi Hospital · JPHarasanshin Hospital · JPKushiro Rosai Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that not only affects hepatocytes, by B cells as well. It is thought that HCV is involved in the onset of B-cell lymphoma. The clinicopathological characteristics of HCV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and HCV-positive splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) are known, but there has been no report on HCV-positive follicular lymphoma (FL). In this study, the clinicopathological characteristics of HCV-positive FL were examined in 263 patients with FL who were classified into a HCV-positive group with HCV antibody and negative groups without one. The number of patients with HCV-positive FL and HCV-negative FL was 10 (3.8%) and 253 (96.2%), respectively. The patients with HCV-positive FL commonly had more than one region of lymphadenopathy, Ann Arbor stage III/IV, hemoglobin <120 g/l, elevated lactate dehydrogenase level, and high-risk categorization of Follicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index (FLIPI) than in patients with HCV-negative FL. Overall survival and progression-free survival were poorer in patients with HCV-positive FL than in those with HCV-negative FL (

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follicular lymphomahepatitis C virusNS3overall survivalpoor prognosis

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PMID29416725
PMCPMC5788593
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