B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoblastic Lymphoma
Clinical
 - Primarily a disease of childhood, 75% <6 yo
 - Increased risk in trisomy 21
 - LBL has predominantly extramedullary disease with limited BM involvement (<25%)
 - Most common sites of LBL involvement are skin, soft tissue, bone, and LN
 - Presents with bone pain, cytopenias, LAD
Risk stratification: 
 - Traditionally based age, WBC count and response to chemotherapy; now often based on genetics
Good Prognosis:
 - Children
 - ETV6-RUNX1 - very good prognosis
 - Hyperdiploidy
Bad Prognosis:
 - Infants and older adults
 - Patients with higher WBC count, CNS involvement, MRD, etc
 - t(9;22)- worst prognosis
 - KMT2A
 - Hypodiploidy
 - iAMP21
 - BCR-ABL-like
Intermediate/unknown:
 - t(1;19)
 - t(5;14)

Dr. Laura Brown @lauraebrown

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Dr. Gerald Diaz @GeraldMD · 4 years ago
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