Gerhard Held, Lorenz Thurner, Viola Poeschel, German Ott, Christian Schmidt, Konstantinos Christofyllakis, Andreas Viardot, Peter Borchmann, Walburga Engel-Riedel, Norbert Frickhofen, Maike Nickelsen, Ofer Shpilberg, Mathias Witzens-Harig, Frank Griesinger, Beate Krammer-Steiner, Andreas Neubauer, Peter de Nully Brown, Massimo Federico, Bertram Glass, Norbert Schmitz, Gerald Wulf, Lorenz Truemper, Moritz Bewarder, Niels Murawski, Stephan Stilgenbauer, Andreas Rosenwald, Bettina Altmann, Marianne Engelhard, Heinz Schmidberger, Jochen Fleckenstein, Christian Berdel, Markus Loeffler, Marita Ziepert
UNFOLDER (NCT00278408, EUDRACT 2005-005218-19) is a phase-3 trial in patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma and intermediate prognosis, including primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL). In a 2 × 2 factorial design, patients were randomized to 6× R-CHOP-14 or R-CHOP-21 (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prediso(lo)ne) and to consolidation radiotherapy to extralymphatic/bulky disease or observation. Response was assessed according to the standardized criteria from 1999, which did not include F-18 fluordesoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET) scans...
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