Transplant and Nontransplant Salvage Therapy in Pediatric Relapsed or Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma: The EuroNet-PHL-R1 Phase 3 Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: The current standard-of-care salvage therapy in relapsed/refractory classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) includes consolidation high-dose chemotherapy (HDCT)/autologous stem cell transplant (aSCT).

Objective: To investigate whether presalvage risk factors and fludeoxyglucose-18 (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) response to reinduction chemotherapy can guide escalation or de-escalation between HDCT/aSCT or transplant-free consolidation with radiotherapy to minimize toxic effects while maintaining high cure rates.

Design, Setting, And Participants: EuroNet-PHL-R1 was a nonrandomized clinical trial that enrolled patients younger than 18 years with first relapsed/refractory cHL across 68 sites in 13 countries in Europe between January 2007 and January 2013.

Prognostic relevance of treatment deviations in children with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia who were treated in the ALL-REZ BFM 2002 study.

Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is among the most common causes of cancer-associated deaths in children. However, little is known about the implications of deviations from ALL treatment protocols on survival rates. The present study elucidates the various characteristics of treatment deviations in children with relapsed ALL included in the ALL-REZ BFM 2002 (i.

Dedicated diagnostic approaches for mature B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas occurring in children, adolescents, and young adults.

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) represents the fourth most common malignant disease among children and adolescents. Current disease classifications, including the most recent World Health Organization (WHO) classification and the International Consensus Classification (ICC), rely on a combination of clinical, epidemiological, histologic, immunophenotypic, and molecular data to define discrete clinicopathologic entities. There is growing evidence that children, adolescents, and young adults (CAYA) with B-cell NHL display unique clinical and epidemiologic characteristics.

Auer rod-positive acute leukemia with predominantly lymphoid immunophenotype: Report on 11 cases and review of literature.

Background: Auer rods (AuRs) are prominent intracellular structures found almost exclusively in myeloid cell malignancies, such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chronic and juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome. Extremely rare AuRs have been reported in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or among ambiguous lineage leukemia patients with a dominantly lymphoblastic immunophenotype.

Procedure: We report diagnostic and follow-up data of an international cohort of 11 children suffering from leukemias with AuRs and with significant presence of T and myeloid markers, majority of whom categorized as early T-cell precursor (ETP, n = 7); or T-ALL (ETP status unknown, n = 2), ALAL (acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage, n = 1), and AML reclassified from ALAL (n = 1).

Comprehensive analysis of constitutional mismatch repair deficiency-associated non-Hodgkin lymphomas in a global cohort.

Background: Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome (CMMRD) is a rare childhood cancer predisposition syndrome associated with a broad spectrum of malignancies, including non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL). Most patients die due to cancer before the age of 20 years. Limited data exist on CMMRD-associated lymphomas and their outcome.