Translocation (3;8)(q27;q24) in two cases of triple hit lymphoma

Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 2010 Dec;203(2):328-32. doi: 10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2010.08.018.

Abstract

Unclassifiable lymphoma with features intermediate between diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma is a new category of B-cell lymphoma appearing in the new World Health Organization Classification of Tumours of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues. This lymphoma usually shows MYC rearrangements with non-IGH genes in the setting of a complex karyotype possibly involving BCL2 and, less frequently, BCL6 rearrangements. According to the presence of two or three rearrangements, these lymphomas are called double-hit lymphomas or triple-hit lymphomas (THL), respectively. Here we report two cases of THL with MYC, BCL2, and BCL6 rearrangements and t(3;8)(q27;q24) diagnosed in one center in the last two years.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3*
  • Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8*
  • Cytogenetics
  • DNA-Binding Proteins / genetics
  • Female
  • Humans
  • In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
  • Karyotyping
  • Lymphoma, B-Cell / genetics*
  • Male
  • Nucleic Acid Hybridization
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 / genetics
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc / genetics
  • Translocation, Genetic*

Substances

  • BCL6 protein, human
  • DNA-Binding Proteins
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc