PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, March 24   —  8:00 AM   —  Marriott Salon 1


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Section A - HEMATOPATHOLOGY
Chaired by: John Anastasi and Catherine Listinsky



8:00 Transcriptional Profiling of MALT Lymphoma: Insight into the Oncogenic Pathway Affected by t(11;18)(q21;q21) and t(1;14)(p22;q32) (1056)
M-Q Du, RA Hamoudi, H Ye, PG Isaacson
University College London, London, United Kingdom
8:15 t(14;18)(q32;q21) Involving IGH and MALT1 Is a Frequent Chromosomal Aberration in Malt Lymphoma (1158)
B Streubel, L Cerroni, G Ott, M Raderer, A Chott
University of Vienna, Vienna; University of Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria; University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Bavaria, Germany
8:30 Histological and Clinical Prognostic Factors in Follicular Lymphoma (1029)
C M Bacon, I Avivi, EC Obermann, W Qian, P Smith, D Linch, A Dogan
UCL Hospitals; MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom
8:45 A Clinicopathologic Evaluation of Follicular Lymphoma Grade IIIA vs. IIIB Reveals No Survival Differences (1080)
ED Hsi, I Mirza, G Lozanski, J Hill, B Pohlman, MT Karafa, RW Coupland
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada
9:00 Investigation of Pro-Survival Pathways by Reverse Phase Protein Microarray in Follicular Lymphoma (1190)
H Zha, M Raffeld, L Charboneau, S Pittaluga, LA Liotta, E Petricoin III, LW Kwak, ES Jaffe
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD
9:15 Gene Expression Profiles in AIDS-Related Lymphomas (ARL) (1048)
S deVos, HP Koeffler, JW Said
UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION I
11:00 Prognostic Significance of STAT3 Activation in Systemic Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (1094)
JD Khoury, LJ Medeiros, GZ Rassidakis, P Tsioli, V Leventaki, A Schmitt-Graeff, M Herling, AH Sarris, R Lai
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
11:15 Detection of the C-Myc Oncogene Translocation and Protein Expression in Burkitt and Other Non-Burkitt Lymphomas (1043)
W-S Chu, R Wu, S Fisher, MQ Wei, J Zhao, A Marquez, Z Shi, N Aguilera, SL Abbondanzo
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, WA; R&D, Zymed Laboratories, CA
11:30 Cytogenetic Abnormalities in Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD) (1051)
M Djokic, D Liebowitz, MM LeBeau, J Anastasi, K Carlson
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
11:45 Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Expression in Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma and Non-Neoplastic Follicular Dendritic Cells (1160)
X Sun, K Chang, LV Abruzzo, R Lai, A Younes, D Jones
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX