Viola Poeschel, Gerhard Held, Marita Ziepert, Mathias Witzens-Harig, Harald Holte, Lorenz Thurner, Peter Borchmann, Andreas Viardot, Martin Soekler, Ulrich Keller, Christian Schmidt, Lorenz Truemper, Rolf Mahlberg, Reinhard Marks, Heinz-Gert Hoeffkes, Bernd Metzner, Judith Dierlamm, Norbert Frickhofen, Mathias Haenel, Andreas Neubauer, Michael Kneba, Francesco Merli, Alessandra Tucci, Peter de Nully Brown, Massimo Federico, Eva Lengfelder, Alice di Rocco, Ralf Trappe, Andreas Rosenwald, Christian Berdel, Martin Maisenhoelder, Ofer Shpilberg, Josif Amam, Konstantinos Christofyllakis, Frank Hartmann, Niels Murawski, Stephan Stilgenbauer, Maike Nickelsen, Gerald Wulf, Bertram Glass, Norbert Schmitz, Bettina Altmann, Markus Loeffler, Michael Pfreundschuh
BACKGROUND: Six cycles of R-CHOP (rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) are the standard treatment for aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In the FLYER trial, we assessed whether four cycles of CHOP plus six applications of rituximab are non-inferior to six cycles of R-CHOP in a population of patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma with favourable prognosis. METHODS: This two-arm, open-label, international, multicentre, prospective, randomised phase 3 non-inferiority trial was done at 138 clinical sites in Denmark, Israel, Italy, Norway, and Germany...
December 21, 2019: Lancet