Natural Killer Cell Lymphoma Shares Strikingly Similar Molecular Features
Leukemia (2011) 25, 348–358 & 2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited All rights reserved 0887-6924/11 www.nature.com/leu ORIGINAL ARTICLE Natural killer cell lymphoma shares strikingly similar molecular features with a group of non-hepatosplenic cd T-cell lymphoma and is highly sensitive to a novel aurora kinase A inhibitor in vitro J Iqbal1, DD Weisenburger1, A Chowdhury2, MY Tsai2, G Srivastava3, TC Greiner1, C Kucuk1, K Deffenbacher1, J Vose4, L Smith5, WY Au3, S Nakamura6, M Seto6, J Delabie7, F Berger8, F Loong3, Y-H Ko9, I Sng10, X Liu11, TP Loughran11, J Armitage4 and WC Chan1, for the International Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma Project 1Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA; 2Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA; 3Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China; 4Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA; 5College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA; 6Departments of Pathology and Cancer Genetics, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan; 7Department of Pathology, University of Oslo, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway; 8Department of Pathology, Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Lyon, France; 9Department of Pathology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea; 10Department of Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore and 11Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA Natural killer (NK) cell lymphomas/leukemias are rare neo- Introduction plasms with an aggressive clinical behavior.
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