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- Title
Advances in understanding the pathogenesis of systemic anaplastic large cell lymphomas.
- Authors
Boi, Michela; Zucca, Emanuele; Inghirami, Giorgio; Bertoni, Francesco
- Abstract
The currently used 2008 World Health Organization classification recognizes two types of systemic anaplastic large T cell lymphoma according to ALK protein expression in tumour cells. First, the 'anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK positive' ( ALK+ ALCL) that is characterized by the presence of ALK gene rearrangements and consequent ALK protein expression, and, second, the 'anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK negative' ( ALK− ALCL) that is a provisional entity lacking ALK protein expression but cannot be distinguished morphologically from ALK+ ALCL. In this review we summarize the current knowledge on the genetic lesions and biological features that underlie the pathogenesis of ALK+ and the ALK− ALCL and that can lead to the use of targeted anti-cancer agents.
- Subjects
LYMPHOMAS; ANAPLASTIC lymphoma kinase; GENE rearrangement; JANUS kinases; CRIZOTINIB; PROTEIN expression
- Publication
British Journal of Haematology, 2015, Vol 168, Issue 6, p771
- ISSN
0007-1048
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bjh.13265