PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, February 28   —  8:00 AM   —  Convention Center Bridge Hall


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Section B - HEMATOPATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Peter M. Banks and, James R.. Cook



8:00 FAK Expression is a Good Prognostic Marker in Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma and is Associated with Germinal Center Phenotype (1099)
F. Khanani, SH Khayyata, M. Kurrer, P. Sochacki, E Levi - Harper Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland; John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
8:15 Cox-2 Staining Is Correlated with Increased MIB-1 Fraction in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (1170)
LK Sussman, J Teruya-Feldstein - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
8:30 PRDM1 Is a Tumor Suppressor Gene in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas (1171)
W Tam, MF Gomez, A Chadburn, JW Lee, WC Chan, DM Knowles - Weill Medical College, Cornell Univ., New York, NY; Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
8:45 PU.1 Binds to the BCL-6 Promotor and Is Co-Upregulated with Bcl-6 in Germinal Center B-Cell Development and Germinal-Center Cell-Derived B-Cell Lymphoma (1174)
E Torlakovic, A Malecka, JH Myklebust, A Tierens, H-C Aasheim, JM Nesland, E Smeland, S Kvaloy, J Delabie - Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway;
9:00 Prognostic Significance of Germinal Center (GC) Phenotype for Outcome in Follicular Lymphoma (1175)
E Torlakovic, N Bilalovic, R Golouh, JM Nesland - Royal Univ. Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Univ. Hospital Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegowina; Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia; The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway
9:15 A Rapid and Comprehensive Real Time PCR Assay for the Detection and Characterization of BCL2/IGH Translocations in Follicular Lymphomas (1162)
LB Smith, R Valdez, WG Finn, JA Thorson University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - 9:30: RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION I
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION I
11:00 Molecular Diagnosis of Burkitt Lymphoma Using Gene Expression Profiling (1067)
K Fu, S Dave, G Wright, DD Weisenburger, TC Greiner, G Ott, HK Muller-Hermelink, LM Rimsza, RM Braziel, RD Gascoyne, J Delabie, E Campo, ES Jaffe, M Chiorazzi, H Zhao, WC Chan, LM Staudt, The LLMP - Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center; NCI; Univ. of Wurzburg; Univ. of Arizona; Univ. of Oregon; British Columbia Cancer Agency; Norwegian Radium Hospital; Univ. of Barcelona
11:15 Flow Cytometric Comparison of Burkitt and CD10(+) Large B-Cell Lymphomas (1098)
MV Kesler, Y Xu, NJ Karandikar, RW McKenna, SH Kroft - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
11:30 High Level of cdc2 Expression Detectable by Immunohistochemistry Correlates with Worse Clinical Outcome in Patients with Mantle Cell Lymphoma (1086)
D Hui, T Reiman, J Hanson, A Belch, R Lai - University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada; Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada; University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
11:45 MRNA Expression Profile of p53 Mutant or ATM Mutant Cases of Mantle Cell Lymphoma (1077)
T Greiner, J Hacia, A Rosenwald, D Weisenburger, L Smith, E Jaffe, R Gascoyne, E Campo, K Mueller-Hermelink, G Ott, J Delabie, R Braziel, L Staudt, W Chan - Univ of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Univ of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany; National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Univ of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Univ of Oregon, Portland, OR