[Analysis of clinical features and prognostic factors in 59 cases of follicular lymphoma].

This study was aimed to explore the clinical features and related prognostic factors of follicular lymphoma (FL). The total of 59 newly diagnosed FL patients were analyzed retrospectively in term of age, sex, clinical manifestation, laboratory data, pathological examination, clinical stage and so on, so as to find out the related prognostic factors. The results showed that the median age of the 59 patients was 55 years, among them the male-female ratio was 1: 1.36. Among the 64.4% cases with the involvement outside lymphonode , the bone marrow involvement accounted for 28.8%, while the involvement of gastrointestinal tract and skeleton was in the second place. The rate of BCL-2/JH gene rearrangement was 30.3%, III-IV of clinical stage accounted for 71.2% in these FL patients. During the follow up of the 56 patients, OR and CR rates were 96.4% and 80.3% respectively, 5 year-and 10 year overall survival rates were 88.2% and 74.1% respectively, the relapse rate was 33.9%. Univariate analysis showed that the age, the longest diameter of involved node, gastrointestinal involvement, serum lactate dehydrogenase, ECOG, IPI, aaIPI, FLIPI, FLIPI2 and whether initial therapy could achieve CR or not were influencing factors of prognosis for FL patients. Multivariant analysis showed that the gastrointestinal involvement, IPI, aaIPI and whether initial therapy could achieve CR or not were independent prognostic factors for OS. The relative mortality risk of patients without CR was 70 times of patient with CR. It is concluded that the newly diagnosed FL is more observed in middle to old aged females, displaying frequent bone marrow involvement, less frequent BCL-2/JH gene rearrangement, III-IV of clinical staging, and high relapse rate, but longer survival time. The gastrointestinal involvement, IPI, aaIPI and whether CR can be achieved or not after initial therapy are independent prognostic factors for FL patients.