Survival of patients and DNA-ploidy of cells in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of low-grade malignancy
Urasiński, I.; Urasiński, T.; Krygier-Stojałowska, A.
Acta Haematologica Polonica 25(4): 355-361
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5814 PMID: 7847037 Document Number: 433507
DNA-ploidy in lymphoma cells obtained from lymph nodes of 107 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas of low grade malignancy was studied prior to the treatment introduction. The survival of patients was within the range of 24-126 months (median 63 months). There were 70 hyperdiploidic and 37 diploidic patients. The statistical tendency to prolonged survival was seen among patients with lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL) as compared to other histological types of the disease. There were no statistical differences in the probability of survival (p-P) between diploidic and hyperdiploidic patients either in the whole studied group or in particular histologic types of lymphoma.