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Blood, 1 January 2005, Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 301-307.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on September 2, 2004; DOI 10.1182/blood-2004-06-2298.
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NEOPLASIA
Gene expression profiling in follicular lymphoma to assess clinical aggressiveness and to guide the choice of treatment
Annuska M. Glas,
Marie José Kersten,
Leonie J. M. J. Delahaye,
Anke T. Witteveen,
Robby E. Kibbelaar,
Arno Velds,
Lodewyk F. A. Wessels,
Peter Joosten,
Ron M. Kerkhoven,
René Bernards,
Johan H. J. M. van Krieken,
Philip M. Kluin,
Laura J. van't Veer, and
Daphne de Jong
From the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Divisions of Diagnostic Oncology, Medical Oncology, Central Microarray Facility, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Central Laboratory for Public Health Friesland, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands; Friesland Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands; Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands; University Medical Center Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; and Groningen University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Follicular lymphoma (FL) is a disease characterized by a long clinical course marked by frequent relapses that vary in clinical aggressiveness over time. Therefore, the main dilemma at each relapse is the choice for the most effective treatment for optimal disease control and failure-free survival while at the same time avoiding overtreatment and harmful side effects. The selection for more aggressive treatment is currently based on histologic grading and clinical criteria; however, in up to 30% of all cases these methods prove to be insufficient. Using supervised classification on a training set of paired samples from patients who experienced either an indolent or aggressive disease course, a gene expression profile of 81 genes was established that could, with an accuracy of 100%, distinguish low-grade from high-grade disease. This profile accurately classified 93% of the FL samples in an independent validation set. Most important, in a third series of FL cases where histologic grading was ambiguous, precluding meaningful morphologic guidance, the 81-gene profile shows a classification accuracy of 94%. The FL stratification profile is a more reliable marker of clinical behavior than the currently used histologic grading and clinical criteria and may provide an important alternative to guide the choice of therapy in patients with FL both at presentation and at relapse. (Blood. 2005;105:301-307)

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