. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2014 Jan 27;165(3):358–363. doi: 10.1111/bjh.12753

Table III.

Characteristics of primary breast diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients with central nervous system relapse. None of the variables listed were significantly different between the two groups

	Patients without CNS relapse N = 64	Patients with CNS relapse N = 12
Stage II_E	17 (27%)	6 (50%)
LDH Elevated	7 (11%)	2 (17%)
Stage-modified IPI High (2-4)	16 (25%)	5 (42%)
Rituximab given	17 (27%)	9 (75%)
CNS prophylaxis given	5 (8%)	1 (8%)

Abbreviations: CNS: Central Nervous System; IPI: International prognostic index; LDH: Lactate dehydrogenase.