Mark Hertzberg, Maher K Gandhi, Judith Trotman, Belinda Butcher, John Taper, Amanda Johnston, Devinder Gill, Shir-Jing Ho, Gavin Cull, Keith Fay, Geoff Chong, Andrew Grigg, Ian D Lewis, Sam Milliken, William Renwick, Uwe Hahn, Robin Filshie, George Kannourakis, Anne-Marie Watson, Pauline Warburton, Andrew Wirth, John F Seymour, Michael S Hofman, Rodney J Hicks
In the treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a persistently positive [18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) scan typically carries a poor prognosis. In this prospective multi-center phase II study, we sought to establish whether treatment intensification with R-ICE (rituximab, ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide) chemotherapy followed by 90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan-BEAM (BCNU, etoposide, cytarabine, and melphalan) for high-risk diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients who are positive on interim PET scan after 4 cycles of R-CHOP-14 (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone) can improve 2-year progression-free survival from a historically unfavorable rate of 40% to a rate of 65%...
February 2017: Haematologica