Significance of p27 Immunostaining in B-Cell Neoplasm

P27 is an important cell cycle regulatory protein. Many reports have validated the utility of p27 as a prognostic marker in different human cancers and to prove its prognostic role in B-cell neoplasm; 80 newly diagnosed B-cell neoplasm patients with mean age of 46.6 years recruited from Hematology/Oncology Unit of Ain Shams University Hospitals during the period from January 2008 till June 2010 were studied for their p27 immunostaining results which showed that all cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) were positive for p27, whereas all mantly cell lymphoma cases were negative for it. There was significantly higher p27 positivity in CLL cases compared with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that indolent cases showed significantly higher rate of positivity when compared with aggressive and highly aggressive cases. So, we can use this marker to differentiate CLL and mantly cell lymphoma in cases of confusion.