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| Author(s): |
Mônica Aparecida Ganazza
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Ciências Médicas |
| Defense date: | 2014-01-31 |
| Examining board members: |
José Andrés Yunes;
Luiz Fernando Lopes;
Mariana Emerenciano Cavalcanti de Sá;
Leticia Fröhlich Archangelo;
Carmen Sílvia Bertuzzo
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| Advisor: | José Andrés Yunes |
| Abstract | |
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer. The recent ALL treatment protocols can achieve the complete remission in 80% of cases and this success is due to different treatments for patients stratified into different risk groups. Therefore, patients considered in remission may have substantial contents of neoplasic cells, the minimal residual disease (MRD). The proliferation of such neoplasic cells is associated with disease relapse and they can be undected by conventional methods. The current protocol of the Brazilian Childhood Leukemia Treatment (GBTLI-LLA-2009) uses the analysis of MRD to stratify patients into risk groups and thus determine their treatment. Thus this study aimed to (1) study the MRD for qualitative and quantitative method (RQ-PCR) at D35 from 120 prospective patients admitted for treatment with protocol GBTLI-LLA-2009 at Centro Boldrini between December 2009 and July 2013 (2) determine the frequency and sensitivity of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor gene rearrangements (3) analysis of the relocation of patients into risk groups in three points of treatment (D8, D15 and D35) (4) find associations between results of MRD at D35 and D15 and clinical-biological characteristics of patients (5) analyze the overall survival in patients (6) to analyze the degree of agreement between the results obtained by qualitative PCR and RQ-PCR in D35. MRD analyzes at D15 were performed by flow cytometry by the multidisciplinary team of the Centro Boldrini, MRD at D35 analyzes were performed by qualitative PCR and RQ-PCR using primers for the VDJ region of the immunoglobulin and T cell receptors. At least one gene rearrangement was detected at diagnosis to 98% of the cases studied by qualitative PCR. The most frequent rearrangements at diagnosis were IGH, IGK, TCRG and TCRD for cases of B-ALL derived and TCRG, TCRD and Sil-Tal and IGH in cases of T-ALL. The most sensitive RQ-PCR patient specific primers (sensitivity 1x10-4) were those involving IGH, TCRD, TCRD and IGK rearrangements. Association between presence of MRD in D35 detected by RQ-PCR and age group (<1 and ? 9 years) was observed. Presence of MRD ? 10-3 in D35 showed to be related with overall survival in patients with B-ALL derived classified as BR after analysis of MRD in D15. Cases of B-ALL derived classified as low risk after the D15 mostly showed no MRD in the analyzed points (D15 and D35) suggesting that the analysis of these cases is dispensable. As for the B-ALL derived cases classified as AR after D15, 7 patients considered good responders in D15 proved to be slow responders in D35 emphasizing the importance of analyzing MRD at this point of treatment. For T-ALL cases the small number of patients did not allow any conclusion. Both methodologies for the analysis of DRM in D35 obtained 80% and 100% of agreement for B-ALL derived and T-ALL respectively (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/01709-5 - Minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia |
| Grantee: | Mônica Aparecida Ganazza |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |