THE ROLE OF CD5+ AS AGGRESSIVE BIOMARKER IN DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA (ICML 2023)
R-CHOP/R-CHOP-like was the most used treatment in first-line (22 patients), combined with radiotherapy in 6 patients (all with localized disease), and 3 (12%) patients received palliative regimens due to frailty... CD5+ DLBCL patients have diverse histologies, some of them related to poor prognosis, as leg-type, intravascular or EBV-positive DLBCL, which make difficult to believe that they constitute a homogeneous biological group, with BCL2 expressed in most of the cases. Of note, all the patients had extranodal involvement and many of them presented other features of poor prognosis at diagnosis, as high LDH and bulky disease. We will perform further comparisons between CD5+ and CD5- DLBCL cohorts to determine the real impact of this biomarker on survival.