Follicular lymphoma: 2014 update on diagnosis and management

American Journal of Hematology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 429-436

  Freedman, Arnold ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; BENDAMUSTINE; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CHLORAMBUCIL; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUDARABINE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MITOXANTRONE; OBINUTUZUMAB; PARAPROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; RITUXIMAB; TOSITUMOMAB;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CELL SURFACE; CYTOPENIA; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC INDEX; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; SECOND CANCER; SOMATIC MUTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR VOLUME; WATCHFUL WAITING;

AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, MURINE-DERIVED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, BCL-2; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GERMINAL CENTER; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; NEOPLASM GRADING; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84897075605     PISSN: 03618609     EISSN: 10968652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.23674     Document Type: Article

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