Rituximab: Current status as therapy for malignant and Benign hematologic disorders

BioDrugs

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 71-82

  Abdulla, Nihal E ^a   Ninan, Mary J ^a   Markowitz, Avi B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; Diffuse large B cell lymphoma; Follicular lymphoma; Haematological disorders; Lymphoma; Rituximab

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; ALPHA2A INTERFERON; BENDAMUSTINE; CAL 101; CARBOPLATIN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CHLORAMBUCIL; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; IFOSFAMIDE; LENALIDOMIDE; MITOXANTRONE; PENTOSTATIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LYMPHOMA; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BENIGN TUMOR; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG MEGADOSE; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; INTRAVASCULAR LARGE CELL LYMPOMA; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOBLASTOMA; MAINTENANCE CHEMOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIMARY MEDIASTINAL LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WALDENSTROEM MACROGLOBULINEMIA; WATCHFUL WAITING;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; ANTIGENS, CD20; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II AS TOPIC; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84857836534     PISSN: 11738804     EISSN: 1179190X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11599500-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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