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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Total Lesion Glycolysis Improves Tumor Burden Evaluation and Risk Assessment at Diagnosis in Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Ines Herraez, Leyre Bento, Jaume Daumal, Alessandra Repetto, Raquel Del Campo, Sandra Perez, Rafael Ramos, Javier Ibarra, Francesc Mestre, Joan Bargay and 4 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ines HerraezDepartment of Hematology, Son Llatzer University Hospital, 07198 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1061-9889
Leyre BentoInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9929-8617
Jaume DaumalInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Alessandra RepettoInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Raquel Del CampoDepartment of Hematology, Son Llatzer University Hospital, 07198 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Sandra PerezInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Rafael RamosInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Javier IbarraInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Francesc MestreInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Joan BargayDepartment of Hematology, Son Llatzer University Hospital, 07198 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Paloma LopezInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Joan Garcias-LadariaInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Antonia SampolInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Antonio GutierrezInstitut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Son Espases University Hospital, 07120 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9062-077X
Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands · ESHospital Son Llatzer · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a hematological malignancy with an excellent prognosis. However, we still need to identify those patients that could experience failed standard frontline chemotherapy. Tumor burden evaluation and standard decisions are based on Ann Arbor (AA) staging, but this approach may be insufficient in predicting outcomes. We aim to study new ways to assess tumor burden through volume-based PET parameters to improve the risk assessment of HL patients. We retrospectively analyzed 101 patients with HL from two hospitals in the Balearic Islands between 2011 and 2018. Higher metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG) were significantly associated with a higher incidence of III-IV AA stages, B-symptoms, hypoalbuminemia, lymphopenia, and higher IPS. Standardized uptake value (SUVmax) was significantly related to AA stage and hypoalbuminemia. We found that TLG or the combination of SUVmax, TLG, and MTV significantly improved the risk assessment when compared to AA staging. We conclude that TLG is the best single PET/CT-related tumor-load parameter that significantly improves HL risk assessment when compared to AA staging. If confirmed in a larger and validated sample, this information could be used to modify standard frontline therapy and justifies the inclusion of TLG inside an HL prognostic score.

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Ann Arbor stageHodgkin lymphomametabolic tumor volumerisk assessmentsurvivaltotal lesion glycolysis

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PMID34640418
PMCPMC8509690
OpenAlexW3204853003

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