Clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of patients with mantle cell lymphoma. Recommendations from the GEL/TAMO Spanish Cooperative Group

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1151-1179

  Caballero, Dolores ^a   Campo, Elías ^b   López Guillermo, Armando ^b   Martín, Alejandro ^a   Arranz Sáez, Reyes ^c   Giné, Eva ^b   López, Andrés ^d   González Barca, Eva ^e   Canales, Miguel Ángel ^f   González Díaz, Marcos ^a   Orfao, Alberto ^g  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^e CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^g Centro de Investigacion del Cancer   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cyclin D1; Cytarabine; Immunochemotherapy; Ki 67; Maintenance therapy; Mantle cell lymphoma; Minimal residual disease; Prognostic factors; Proliferation index; Salvage therapy; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

BENDAMUSTINE; BORTEZOMIB; CARMUSTINE; CHLORAMBUCIL; CISPLATIN; CYCLIN D1; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; CYTARABINE DERIVATIVE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; GEMCITABINE; IBRITUMOMAB TIUXETAN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LENALIDOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE; OXALIPLATIN; PREDNISONE; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; RITUXIMAB; SARCOLYSIN; TEMSIROLIMUS; TOSITUMOMAB I 131; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX11; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADVANCED CANCER; ANEMIA; ASTHENIA; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CCND1 GENE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CYCLIN D1 NEGATIVE MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN VARIABLE REGION GENE; IN SITU CELL LYMPHOMA; INDOLENT MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; INFECTION; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LEUKOPENIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAINTENANCE CHEMOTHERAPY; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; ONCOGENE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, MANTLE-CELL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SPAIN; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883135969     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: 14320584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-013-1783-4     Document Type: Review

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