Open AccessPattern of extranodal involvement and its impact on survival in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma from a tertiary cancer center in rural India
Author(s) -
Chandran K. Nair,
A Ravikumar Kurup,
Manuprasad Avaronnan,
Pareen J. Shenoy,
Vineetha Raghavan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_428_19
Subject(s) - medicine , diffuse large b cell lymphoma , lymphoma , univariate analysis , rituximab , chemotherapy , oncology , overall survival , gastroenterology , survival analysis , b symptoms , single center , multivariate analysis
Extranodal (EN) involvement in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) carries poor prognosis. Both the number and the specific sites of EN involvement are important in predicting prognosis. Given that the epidemiologic pattern of DLBCL in India is different from the rest of the world and such data correlations are scarce from developing countries, we aimed to find out if specific site and number of EN involvement could predict survival in DLBCL.