A five-point score (age, stage, performance status, LDH, extranodal sites) that predicts how risky a lymphoma is before treatment.
The International Prognostic Index is a five-point score for aggressive lymphoma that counts age, stage, performance status, LDH and extranodal involvement, and is calculated before treatment begins. Scores of 0 to 1 are low risk, 2 low-intermediate, 3 high-intermediate and 4 to 5 high risk. In diffuse large B-cell lymphoma the IPI defines trial eligibility, with POLARIX enrolling patients scoring 2 to 5 and frontMIND those scoring 3 to 5, and it frames the expected outcome of R-CHOP, which is far better at the low end of the scale than at the high end in the rituximab era. Readers meet it on the DLBCL page and in those two trial records.
Leukaemias, myeloma and MDS live in the marrow and blood; lymphomas grow in lymph nodes and spleen. The node stations are the disease map, not a route of spread, and staging counts them.
In lymphoma the node stations are the disease itself; staging (Ann Arbor / Lugano) counts how many regions and sides of the diaphragm are involved.
Same organ: High-grade B-cell lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 rearrangements (double-hit lymphoma), Mediastinal grey zone lymphoma, Primary effusion lymphoma, Plasmablastic lymphoma, T-cell/histiocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma, EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, Primary large B-cell lymphoma of the testis, Gastric MALT lymphoma, Ocular adnexal MALT lymphoma, Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, Adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma, ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK-negative anaplastic large cell lymphoma, Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, Primary cutaneous anaplastic large cell lymphoma, Lymphomatoid papulosis, Mycosis fungoides, Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma, Monomorphic epitheliotropic intestinal T-cell lymphoma, Extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT lymphoma), Splenic marginal zone lymphoma, Nodal marginal zone lymphoma, Primary cutaneous marginal zone lymphoma, Primary cutaneous follicle centre lymphoma, Sezary syndrome, Nodal T-follicular helper cell lymphoma, angioimmunoblastic type (angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma), Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma, Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma, Lymphomatoid granulomatosis, T-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia, Splenic B-cell lymphoma/leukaemia with prominent nucleoli (formerly B-cell prolymphocytic leukaemia and hairy cell leukaemia variant), T-cell large granular lymphocytic leukaemia, Mixed-phenotype acute leukaemia, Myeloid leukaemia of Down syndrome, Burkitt leukaemia, Marginal zone lymphoma, Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome), Primary mediastinal (thymic) large B-cell lymphoma, Leukaemia (all types), Acute myeloid leukaemia, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), Follicular lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, Mantle cell lymphoma, Multiple myeloma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (all types), Myelodysplastic syndromes / neoplasms (MDS), Myeloproliferative neoplasms (PV, ET, myelofibrosis), Polycythaemia vera (PV), Essential thrombocythaemia (ET), Waldenström macroglobulinaemia, Hairy cell leukaemia, Peripheral T-cell lymphomas (including cutaneous T-cell lymphoma), Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN), Burkitt lymphoma, HIV-associated (AIDS-related) lymphomas, Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia and MDS/MPN overlap neoplasms, Systemic mastocytosis, Erdheim-Chester disease, Rosai-Dorfman disease and other histiocytic neoplasms, Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH), Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD), FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukaemia, IDH1- and IDH2-mutated acute myeloid leukaemia, NPM1-mutated and KMT2A-rearranged acute myeloid leukaemia, Secondary and therapy-related acute myeloid leukaemia, Acute promyelocytic leukaemia, Acute myeloid leukaemia in older or unfit patients, Smouldering multiple myeloma, Newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, transplant-eligible, Newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, transplant-ineligible, Relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, Plasma cell leukaemia, Lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, Higher-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, first treatment, Relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Richter transformation of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, Chronic myeloid leukaemia, chronic phase, Chronic myeloid leukaemia, accelerated and blast phase, Primary myelofibrosis, Standard-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children, High-risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children (high-risk B-ALL and T-ALL), Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children (Ph-positive ALL), Philadelphia chromosome-like acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (Ph-like or BCR::ABL1-like ALL), Infant acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (KMT2A-rearranged, under one year), Relapsed and refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children, Acute myeloid leukaemia in children, Erdheim-Chester disease, Rosai-Dorfman-Destombes disease, Single-system Langerhans cell histiocytosis (bone, skin or one other organ), Multisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis (with or without risk-organ involvement), Indolent and smouldering systemic mastocytosis, Advanced systemic mastocytosis (aggressive SM, SM with an associated haematological neoplasm, mast cell leukaemia), Early-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma (stage I to II), Advanced-stage classical Hodgkin lymphoma (stage III to IV), Nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (nodular lymphocyte-predominant B-cell lymphoma), Relapsed and refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma
Showing the organ this term concerns: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
The reason second-line CAR-T is offered with axicabtagene ciloleucel or lisocabtagene maraleucel rather than tisagenlecleucel. The trial is also the strongest evidence in the field that the interval between apheresis and infusion, and what is given during it, is part of the treatment rather than logistics around it.
One of the two foundational genetic classifications of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Neither has yet changed what a patient receives outside a trial, but together they are the reason precision-medicine trials in this disease now select by genetics rather than by cell of origin.
The practical form of cell-of-origin classification, used in pathology laboratories worldwide. When a report says germinal-centre or non-germinal-centre, this is almost always the algorithm behind it.
The reason a pathology report on diffuse large B-cell lymphoma says germinal-centre or non-germinal-centre, and the origin of every attempt since to treat the two differently. It also made the case that microarray profiling could do something the clinical index could not, which is what pulled genomics into haematology.
Shares Confirmation of the molecular classification of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by immunohistochemistry using a tissue microarray, The use of molecular profiling to predict survival after chemotherapy for diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma, Lymphoma roadmap: from a jaw tumour in Uganda and the first human cancer virus to gene-expression subtypes, PET-adapted chemotherapy, CAR-T cells, bispecific antibodies and the genetics-directed trials now recruiting, Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Shares T-cell/histiocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma, REMARC, High-grade B-cell lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 rearrangements (double-hit lymphoma), FLYER.
Shares T-cell/histiocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma, High-grade B-cell lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 rearrangements (double-hit lymphoma), ALK-negative anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma.
Shares Nodal and extranodal lymphoma, ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma, Primary large B-cell lymphoma of the testis, FLIPI, FLIPI2 and POD24 (follicular lymphoma risk).
Shares Confirmation of the molecular classification of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma by immunohistochemistry using a tissue microarray, The use of molecular profiling to predict survival after chemotherapy for diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma, Molecular subtypes of diffuse large B cell lymphoma are associated with distinct pathogenic mechanisms and outcomes, Lymphoma roadmap: from a jaw tumour in Uganda and the first human cancer virus to gene-expression subtypes, PET-adapted chemotherapy, CAR-T cells, bispecific antibodies and the genetics-directed trials now recruiting.
Shares T-cell/histiocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma, ALK-negative anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma, Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Shares High-grade B-cell lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 rearrangements (double-hit lymphoma), CNS prophylaxis in aggressive B-cell lymphoma, and the evidence against it, Lymphoma roadmap: from a jaw tumour in Uganda and the first human cancer virus to gene-expression subtypes, PET-adapted chemotherapy, CAR-T cells, bispecific antibodies and the genetics-directed trials now recruiting, Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Shares Nodal and extranodal lymphoma, ALK-negative anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (all types).