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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-11-11
pubmed:abstractText
Rituximab-containing regimens are becoming a therapeutic standard in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), so that a validation of flow cytometric minimal residual disease (MRD) quantification (MRD flow) in the presence of this antibody is necessary. We therefore compared results obtained by real-time quantitative (RQ)-PCR to MRD flow in 530 samples from 69 patients randomized to receive chemotherapy or chemotherapy plus rituximab. Quantitative MRD levels assessed by both techniques were closely correlated irrespective of therapy (r=0.95). The sensitivity and specificity of MRD flow was not influenced by the presence of rituximab. With 58.9% positive and 26.4% negative samples by both techniques, 85.3% of assessments (452/530) were qualitatively concordant between MRD flow and RQ-PCR. Discordant samples were typically negative by MRD flow and simultaneously positive close to the detection limit of the PCR assays, indicating a higher sensitivity of PCR for very low MRD levels. However, 93.8% of all samples were concordantly classified by both methods using a threshold of 10(-4) to determine MRD positivity. MRD flow and PCR are equally effective for MRD quantification in rituximab-treated CLL patients within a sensitivity range of up to 10(-4), whereas PCR is more sensitive for detecting MRD below that level.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1476-5551
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2007-17
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Antibodies, Monoclonal, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Antineoplastic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-B-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Drug Monitoring, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Female, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Limit of Detection, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Neoplasm, Residual, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Reproducibility of Results, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:19641522-Sensitivity and Specificity
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Standardized MRD flow and ASO IGH RQ-PCR for MRD quantification in CLL patients after rituximab-containing immunochemotherapy: a comparative analysis.
pubmed:affiliation
Second Department of Medicine, University of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. s.boettcher@med2.uni-kiel.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Validation Studies