Around 95%+ pediatric patients have anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)–positive disease. And non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is reported in children at an approximate rate of 10%-15%. The biggest reported review associate included 74 youngsters with first relapse ALCL who had been consistently treated with Berlin-Frankfurt-Muenster–type NHL therapy. The time from diagnosis to relapse or progression was firmly connected with treatment failure, with 5-year EFS of 19% ± 10% for patients who showed progression during the beginning stage of the treatment, and 50% ± 8% for those with relapse after treatment yet inside a year of their diagnosis. The results showed that the patients who received auto-HSCT, CD3 positivity on tumor cells was associated with poor EFS with only one of 11 patients remaining in remission. As a conclusion it is clear that this study helped to identify the time to relapse along with the CD3 expression as potential prognostic factors, and lastly the optimal use of allo-HSCT versus auto-HSCT remained uncertain.
Reference link-https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/JCO.20.02285
