hTERT expression and prognosis in B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Annals of Oncology : Official Journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology
A TchirkovP Travade

Abstract

In B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), there is a need for molecular markers to predict the evolution of this heterogeneous disease in individual patients. The level of expression of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) gene has been associated with disease aggressiveness in human cancers. The purpose of the present study was to examine the prognostic significance of hTERT expression in B-CLL. We used real-time reverse transcription-PCR to quantitate the amount of hTERT transcripts in mononuclear blood cells from 90 B-CLL patients. In addition, samples were analyzed for somatic mutations in the immunoglobulin V (IgV) genes. The expression of hTERT gene was detected in 59% of patients. The level of expression increased with advancing B-CLL stage (P=0.0064). Patients expressing hTERT showed significantly shorter survival than hTERT-negative patients (P=0.000034), irrespective of the disease stage. On average, the level hTERT mRNA expression was seven-fold higher in the poor-prognosis B-CLL group with unmutated IgV than in the Ig-mutated group (P<10(-7)). The level of hTERT expression discriminated the Ig-unmutated from Ig-mutated B-CLL in 89% of cases. Our data indicate that hTERT expression in B-CLL may serve a...Continue Reading

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