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SUBMITTER: Mohamed O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7001371 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mohamed Osama O El Bastawisy Ahmed A Allahlobi Nasr N Abdellateif Mona S MS Zekri Abdel Rahman N ARN Shaarawy Sabry S Korany Zeinab Z Mohanad Marwa M Bahnassy Abeer A AA
Diagnostic pathology 20200204 1
<h4>Background</h4>CD68+ tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) play an important role in the progression of classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). We assessed the role of CD20 and CD68 + TAM in a cohort of cHL patients from Egypt and correlated the number of CD68 + cells with patients' characteristics, response to treatment, overall and progression free survival rates (OS & PFS).<h4>Methods</h4>CD20 expression and CD68 + TAM numbers were assessed in representative tumor tissues obtained from 81 cHL pati ...[more]