Dose-dense and high-dose chemotherapy plus rituximab with autologous stem cell transplantation for primary treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with a poor prognosis: a phase II multicenter study.

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Published in Haematologica on July 07, 2009

Authors

Umberto Vitolo1, Annalisa Chiappella, Emanuele Angelucci, Giuseppe Rossi, Anna Marina Liberati, Maria Giuseppina Cabras, Barbara Botto, Giovannino Ciccone, Gianluca Gaidano, Lorenzo Falchi, Roberto Freilone, Domenico Novero, Lorella Orsucci, Vincenzo Pavone, Enrico Pogliani, Delia Rota-Scalabrini, Flavia Salvi, Anna Tonso, Alessandra Tucci, Alessandro Levis, Gruppo Italiano Multiregionale Linfomi e Leucemie (GIMURELL)

Author Affiliations

1: SC Ematologia II, Azienda Ospedaliera e Universitaria San Giovanni Battista, Corso Bramante 88, Turin, Italy. uvitolo@molinette.piemonte.it

Associated clinical trials:

Dose Dense Chemotherapy + Rituximab +/-Intensified High Dose Chemoimmunotherapy With Support of Peripheral Autologous Stem Cell in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLCL04) | NCT00499018

Rituximab in Addition to Chemotherapy With Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation as Treatment Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) | NCT00556127

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