Monoclonal antibody therapy for B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 359, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 613-626

  Cheson, Bruce D ^a   Leonard, John P ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; APOLIZUMAB; BEVACIZUMAB; CD 74 ANTIBODY; CD20 ANTIBODY; CHIR 12.12; CHLORAMBUCIL; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; EPRATUZUMAB; FLUDARABINE; GALIXIMAB; IBRITUMOMAB TIUXETAN; LUMILIXIMAB; MILATUZUMAB; MITOXANTRONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OFATUMUMAB; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RITUXIMAB; SGN 40; TOSITUMOMAB I 131; TRAIL ANTIBODY; VINCRISTINE;

BLOOD TOXICITY; BRONCHOSPASM; CHILL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SAFETY; FATIGUE; FEVER; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; RASH; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URTICARIA; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA;

EID: 49349095724     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra0708875     Document Type: Review

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