Abstract:Twenty percent of patients with high‐tumor‐burden (HTB) follicular lymphoma (FL) develop progression/relapse of disease (POD) within 24 months of frontline immunochemotherapy. Unfortunately, about 50% of these patients die within 5 years since POD event. Rituximab maintenance was proven to reduce relapse rate in responding FL, but its role on preventing POD was not defined. We analyzed 1360 HTB‐FL patients from the Czech Lymphoma Study Group registry treated with frontline rituximab‐containing regimen. Of thos… Show more
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