Description

Patients with conventional mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) show an aggressive clinical behavior. However, cases fulfilling the WHO criteria for MCL, but that remain asymptomatic without treatment, have been reported. In an attempt to understand this heterogeneity, we have compared 17 typical cases of MCL with a homogeneous group of 13 asymptomatic individuals with monoclonal expansion of t(11;14)(q13;q32) cyclin D1-positive B-cells in peripheral blood (MALD1). None of these cases have received treatment (minimum follow-up of 26 months; median, 71 months).

Publication Title

Distinction between asymptomatic monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis with cyclin D1 overexpression and mantle cell lymphoma: from molecular profiling to flow cytometry.

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