Treatment strategies for relapsed and refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 983-995

  Prichard, Mark ^a   Harris, Thomas ^a   Williams, Michael E ^a   Densmore, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Diffuse large B cell lymphoma; Immunotherapy; Mantle cell lymphoma; Non Hodgkin's lymphoma; Peripheral T cell lymphoma; Randomized trials

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; BENDAMUSTINE; BORTEZOMIB; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CLADRIBINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLAVOPIRIDOL; FLUDARABINE; GEMCITABINE; IFOSFAMIDE; LENALIDOMIDE; MEPREDNISONE; MESNA; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE; OXALIPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; RITUXIMAB; TEMSIROLIMUS; THALIDOMIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINCRISTINE; VORINOSTAT;

ALOPECIA; ASTHENIA; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLOOD TOXICITY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSTIPATION; CYTOPENIA; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG FATALITY; DYSPNEA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG TOXICITY; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERIPHERAL T CELL LYMPHOMA; PROGNOSIS; RASH; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; RECURRENCE; SALVAGE THERAPY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649653923     PISSN: 14656566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14656560902895715     Document Type: Review

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