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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY
Volume 138, Issue 3, Pages 429-434Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1309/AJCP7YLTQPUSDQ5C
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Distribution; China; Lymphoid neoplasms
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- National Science and Technology Support Project (the 11th Five-Year Plan) of China [2006BAI02A14]
- Scientific Research Special Projects of Health Ministry of China [200802011]
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To estimate the distribution of lymphoid neoplasms in China, we conducted a comprehensive analysis, based on subtype, age, sex, and lesion, of primary and resected biopsy specimens of 4,638 lymphoid neoplasms diagnosed from 2004 to 2008 at 5 large hospitals. Of the 4,638 patients, mature B-cell neoplasms accounted for 64.3% of all lymphoid neoplasms, mature T/NK-cell neoplasms for 23.3%, and Hodgkin lymphoma for 8.6%. The most common subtype was diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (36.2%), followed by extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type (11.0%), classic Hodgkin lymphoma (8.4%), extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (7.7%), plasmacytic neoplasm (5.0%), and peripheral T-cell lymphoma, not otherwise specified (3.9%). For most lymphoid neoplasm subtypes, male subjects showed higher rates than female subjects. In summary, our study showed that the epidemiologic features of lymphoid neoplasms in China are distinct from those in Western countries and similar in many ways to those in other countries of the Far East.
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