Haematologica (Nov 2019)

Prolonged survival in the absence of disease-recurrence in advanced-stage follicular lymphoma following chemo-immunotherapy: 13-year update of the prospective, multicenter randomized GITMO-IIL trial

  • Riccardo Bruna,
  • Fabio Benedetti,
  • Carola Boccomini,
  • Caterina Patti,
  • Anna Maria Barbui,
  • Alessandro Pulsoni,
  • Maurizio Musso,
  • Anna Marina Liberati,
  • Guido Gini,
  • Claudia Castellino,
  • Fausto Rossini,
  • Fabio Ciceri,
  • Delia Rota-Scalabrini,
  • Caterina Stelitano,
  • Francesco Di Raimondo,
  • Alessandra Tucci,
  • Liliana Devizzi,
  • Valerio Zoli,
  • Francesco Zallio,
  • Franco Narni,
  • Alessandra Dondi,
  • Guido Parvis,
  • Gianpietro Semenzato,
  • Francesco Lanza,
  • Tommasina Perrone,
  • Francesco Angrilli,
  • Atto Billio,
  • Angela Gueli,
  • Barbara Mantoan,
  • Alessandro Rambaldi,
  • Alessandro Massimo Gianni,
  • Paolo Corradini,
  • Roberto Passera,
  • Marco Ladetto,
  • Corrado Tarella

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2018.209932
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 104, no. 11

Abstract

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A prospective trial conducted in the period 2000-2005 showed no survival advantage for high-dose chemotherapy with rituximab and autograft (R-HDS) versus conventional chemotherapy with rituximab (CHOP-R) as first-line therapy in 134 high-risk follicular lymphoma patients aged