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ArticleJournal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute2023

Clinical features, laboratory characteristics, and outcome of ETP and TCRA/D aberrations in pediatric patients with T-acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Mona S El Ashry, Enas Radwan, Mona S Abdellateif, Omar Arafah, Naglaa M Hassan

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Article in Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mona S El AshryClinical Pathology Department, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Enas RadwanClinical Pathology Department, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Mona S AbdellateifMedical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology Department, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. mona.sayed@nci.cu.edu.eg.
Omar ArafahPediatric Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Naglaa M HassanClinical Pathology Department, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Cairo University · EGChildren Cancer Hospital · EG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundT-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive malignancy with few accepted prognostic factors that limit the efficiency of therapy. The aim of the current study was to assess the clinical and laboratory features of T-cell receptor (TCR) aberrations and early T-cell precursor (ETP) subtype as well as their outcome to therapy.

methodsSixty-three newly diagnosed pediatric T-ALL patients were assessed for the ETP status using immunophenotyping. Screening of TCRA/D aberrations was done by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). The data were correlated to the patients' clinical features, response to treatment, and survival rates.

resultsSeven patients (11%) had ETP-ALL. The ETP-ALL patients were older (P = 0.013), presented with lower white blood cell (WBC) count (P = 0.001) and lower percentage of peripheral blood (PB) blast cells (P = 0.037), more likely to have hyperdiploid karyotype (P = 0.009), and had been associated with TCRA/D gene amplification (P = 0.014) compared to other T-ALL patients. Of note, the same associations had been significantly observed in patients with TCRA/D gene amplification. Patients with TCRA/D amplification frequently coincided with TCRβ aberrations (P = 0.025). TCR-β aberrations were significantly associated with negative MRD at the end of induction compared to TCR-β-negative patients. There was a nonsignificant trend of ETP-positive cases to have lower overall survival (OS) (P = 0.06). Patients with TCR aberrations had no significant differences regarding disease-free survival (DFS) or OS rates compared to those with normal TCR.

conclusionETP-ALL patients tend to have increased mortalities. There was no significant impact of TCR aberrations on the survival rates of the patients.

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Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-LymphomaDisease-Free SurvivalHumansImmunophenotypingIn Situ Hybridization, FluorescenceProgression-Free SurvivalChildEarly T-cell precursorT-ALLT-cell receptor

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PMCPMC13313959
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