Masaya Iwamuro, Takehiro Tanaka, Daisuke Ennishi, Kazuhiro Matsueda, Masao Yoshioka, Koji Miyahara, Chihiro Sakaguchi, Mamoru Nishimura, Teruya Nagahara, Tomohiko Mannami, Ryuta Takenaka, Shohei Oka, Masafumi Inoue, Hidetaka Takimoto, Tomoki Inaba, Sayo Kobayashi, Tatsuya Toyokawa, Hirofumi Tsugeno, Seiyuu Suzuki, Sachiko Sawada, Shouichi Tanaka, Takao Tsuzuki, Hiroyuki Okada
Patients with primary intestinal follicular lymphoma are often followed-up without a specific treatment, and this approach is called the "watch-and-wait approach." However, the long-term outcomes of this patient group have not been sufficiently investigated. We enrolled patients with primary intestinal follicular lymphoma who were diagnosed before 2016 and managed with the watch-and-wait approach in 20 institutions. We retrospectively investigated the overall, disease-specific, and event-free survival rates as well as the rate of spontaneous regression...
April 11, 2023: Scientific Reports