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Blood, Vol. 94 No. 10 (November 15), 1999:
pp. 3334-3339
A High Pretreatment Serum Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Concentration
Is an Independent Predictor of Poor Prognosis in Non-Hodgkin's
Lymphoma
Petri Salven,
Lasse Teerenhovi, and
Heikki Joensuu
From the Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Central
Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) is a secreted multifunctional
cytokine and a potent stimulator of angiogenesis in vivo. Elevated bFGF concentrations have been detected in the serum and urine of cancer patients. We measured bFGF by enzyme-linked
immunosorbent assay from sera taken from 160 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
(NHL) patients before treatment and stored at  20°C. The patients
had been observed for at least 5 years or until death. Serum bFGF
concentrations (S-bFGF) ranged from undetectable to 34.7 pg/mL (median,
3.3 pg/mL). S-bFGF was detectable with a similar frequency in all
subtypes of NHL. A high pretreatment S-bFGF was associated with poor
overall survival. The 5-year survival rate of the patients within the highest quartile of S-bFGF concentrations (S-bFGF = 5.5 pg/mL) was
only 39%, in contrast to a 60% survival rate of the patients with
lower S-bFGF (P = .019). A high S-bFGF (within the highest quartile) was associated with poor outcome also in large-cell diffuse
and immunoblastic lymphomas (5-year survival rates of 28% v
56%, respectively; P = .027), which was the largest
histologic subgroup (n = 66) within the series. In multivariate
analyses, S-bFGF was an independent prognostic factor, both when the
highest quartile was used as a cut-off value (P = .0079) and when S-bFGF and the other parameters were entered into the
model as continuous variables (P = .024). In the multivariate
analyses, S-bFGF had a noticeably stronger prognostic value than serum
lactate dehydrogenase and the number of extranodal tumor sites, both of
which are currently included as components in the International
Prognostic Index.
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