Therapeutic targets and microenvironment in sequential biopsies of classical Hodgkin lymphoma at diagnosis and relapse

Autor: Monika Szczepanowski, Antje Schnitter, Wolfram Klapper, Peter Möller, Katharina Reddemann, Christoph Thorns, Falko Fend, Rainer Spang, Birgit Federmann, Sarah Reinke, Christian W. Kohler
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of Hematopathology. 12:11-17
ISSN: 1865-5785
1868-9256
DOI: 10.1007/s12308-019-00350-2
Popis: Classical Hodgkin lymphoma is dominated by the non-neoplastic microenvironment, while the neoplastic Hodgkin-Reed-Sternberg cells compose only a minority of cells in the lymphoma tissue. Both the Hodgkin-Reed-Sternberg cells due to their expression of CD30 and PD-L1 and the microenvironment with abundant T cells and expression of PD1 are specifically targeted by new treatment concepts. We aimed to understand the dynamics of therapeutic targets in patients treated with conventional chemotherapy. We analyzed sequential biopsy specimens obtained at diagnosis and at relapse from the same patient for morphology, immunophenotype, and microenvironmental components. The morphological subtype changed between primary and relapse biopsy in 20% of cases. The immunophenotype was stable with respect to CD30, CD3, and LMP1 but variable with respect to CD15 and CD20 expression. Gene expression revealed 8 upregulated and 20 downregulated genes at relapse (p
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