NLPHL Research

GLOW’s international, multidisciplinary network conducts rigorous research across the age continuum in order to improve the diagnostic accuracy of NLPHL, establish a global standard of care, and improve patient outcomes.

GLOW Research Policies & Forms

Please review the GLOW publication policy before completing a GLOW project application form.  If you are not currently a GLOW researcher and would like to do research with GLOW, please email GLOW@urmc.rochester.edu to discuss our research processes.

NLPHL Research Databases

NLPHL Retrospective Database

GLOW maintains the world’s largest database of clinical data from over 2,000 patients of all ages and stages who have been diagnosed with NLPHL. As of 2022, GLOW is partnering with the NODAL and the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons to harmonize and house incoming retrospective clinical trials data.    To learn more about how your site can contribute NLPHL case data to the GLOW retrospective database via NODAL, please contact Suzi Birz (sbirz@bsd.uchicago.edu) or email GLOW@urmc.rochester.edu.


Retrospective Database Data Contributors (2024)

NLPHL Tissue Bank

The GLOW NLPHL biobank resides at Stanford University. Researchers who are interested in sharing or utilizing samples for collaborative research with GLOW may contact  GLOW@urmc.rochester.edu to discuss.

NLPHL Studies

GLOW Studies

NLPHLPRO is the first study of patient-reported outcomes in patients diagnosed with NLPHL.  This multi-site GLOW study was designed by the GLOW Patient-Reported Outcomes Committee under the leadership of Dr. Ajay Major.

Principal Investigators

Valerie Crabtree, PhD  |   St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Anna Jones, PhD  |   St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Ajay Major, MD, MBA  |   University of Colorado School of Medicine

Jamie Flerlage, MD, MS  |   University of Rochester

Matthew Rees, MD  |   St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Collaborating Sites

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard University

Emory University

Hackensack University Medical Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Stanford University

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

University of Colorado

University of Rochester Medical Center

Other NLPHL Studies

Additional non-GLOW NLPHL studies may be available at this time.  Below are resources that maintain databases of active and historical clinical research.

NLPHL Discovery: A timeline

1832

 Thomas Hodgkin identifies Hodgkin lymphoma.

1944

Jackson & Parker describe Hodgkin’s paragranuloma (NLPHL) as a distinct clinical entity. NLPHL is no longer considered “early Hodgkin’s.”

1966

Lukes & Butler establish basis for modern classification of HL.

1988

Regula et. al conclude NLPHL may have significant clinical and immunophenotypic differences from other Hodgkin lymphomas. Independent research groups conduct pilot studies of de-intensified treatment for NLPHL.

1997

The World Health Organization recognizes NLPHL as a distinct subtype of Hodgkin lymphoma.

2003

Fan et. al identify 6 histopathologic NLPHL variants.

~2010

Increasing understanding of differences in clinical outcomes between (rare) NLPHL and (more common)

cHL as well as a difference in expression of cell surface antigens leads to the exclusion of patients with NLPHL

from frontline HL clinical trials.  Researchers worldwide are unable to secure funding for frontline NLPHL clinical trials.

2020

The Global nLPHL One Working Group (GLOW) is established.

2022

 The International Consensus Classification (ICC) Clinical Advisory Committee (CAC) reclassifies NLPHL to nodular lymphocyte predominant B-cell lymphoma (NLPBL).  The World Health Organization continues to use the term NLPHL. 

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