TY - JOUR AU - Andishe Attarbaschi, AU - Elisa Carraro, AU - Oussama Abla, AU - Shlomit Barzilai-Birenboim, AU - Simon Bomken, AU - Laurence Brugieres, AU - Eva Bubanska, AU - Birgit Burkhardt, AU - Alan K.S. Chiang, AU - Monika Csoka, AU - Alina Fedorova, AU - Janez Jazbec, AU - Edita Kabickova, AU - Zdenka Krenova, AU - Jelena Lazic, AU - Jan Loeffen, AU - Georg Mann, AU - Felix Niggli, AU - Natalia Miakova, AU - Tomoo Osumi, AU - Leila Ronceray, AU - Anne Uyttebroeck, AU - Denise Williams, AU - Wilhelm Woessmann, AU - Grazyna Wrobel, AU - Marta Pillon, PY - 2016/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and pre-existing conditions: spectrum, clinical characteristics and outcome in 213 children and adolescents JF - Haematologica JA - haematol VL - 101 IS - 12 SE - Articles DO - 10.3324/haematol.2016.147116 UR - https://haematologica.org/article/view/7915 SP - 1581-1591 AB - Children and adolescents with pre-existing conditions such as DNA repair defects or other primary immunodeficiencies have an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. However, large-scale data on patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and their entire spectrum of pre-existing conditions are scarce. A retrospective multinational study was conducted by means of questionnaires sent out to the national study groups or centers, by the two largest consortia in childhood non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the European Intergroup for Childhood non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, and the international Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster Study Group. The study identified 213 patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a pre-existing condition. Four subcategories were established: a) cancer predisposition syndromes (n=124, 58%); b) primary immunodeficiencies not further specified (n=27, 13%); c) genetic diseases with no increased cancer risk (n=40, 19%); and d) non-classifiable conditions (n=22, 10%). Seventy-nine of 124 (64%) cancer predispositions were reported in groups with more than 20 patients: ataxia telangiectasia (n=32), Nijmegen breakage syndrome (n=26), constitutional mismatch repair deficiency (n=21). For the 151 patients with a known cancer risk, 5-year event-free survival and overall survival rates were 40%±4% and 51%±4%, respectively. Five-year cumulative incidences of progression/relapse and treatment-related death as a first event were 22%±4% and 24%±4%, respectively. Ten-year incidence of second malignancy was 24%±5% and 7-year overall survival of the 21 patients with a second malignancy was 41%±11%. Patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and pre-existing conditions have an inferior survival rate with a large proportion of therapy-related deaths compared to patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and no pre-existing conditions. They may require special vigilance when receiving standard or modified/reduced-intensity chemotherapy or when undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation. ER -