Table 3
Clinical characteristics of anaplastic large cell lymphoma of different sites of origin
| Lymph node | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALK positive (n = 18) | ALK negative (n = 30) | Skin (n = 10) | Gastrointestinal tract (n = 13) | Nose (n = 5) | p Value | |
| *As determined by the Kruskal-Wallis test; **as determined by the log rank test; ***as estimated from the Kaplan Meier curve. | ||||||
| Median age (range) | 25 (2–69) | 53.5 (13–82) | 52 (31–80) | 62 (22–80) | 76 (39–86) | 0.003* |
| Died of disease | 2 | 18 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0.0003** |
| Five year survival (%) | 90 | 35 | 100 | 30 | 0 | 0.0003*** |
