Relapsed Hodgkin Lymphoma: Management Strategies

Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 284-293

  Montanari, Francesca ^a   Diefenbach, Catherine ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autologous stem cell transplant; Bendamustine; Brentuximab vedotin; Elderly patients; Everolimus; Histone deacetylase inhibitors; Hodgkin lymphoma; Immunochemotherapy; Lenalidomide; Panobinostat; Reduced intensity conditioning allogeneic stem cell transplant; Refractory disease; Relapsed disease; Risk stratification; Rituximab

Indexed keywords

BENDAMUSTINE; BRENTUXIMAB VEDOTIN; EVEROLIMUS; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; IPILIMUMAB; LENALIDOMIDE; NIVOLUMAB; RITUXIMAB; ANTIBODY CONJUGATE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CAC10-VCMMAE;

ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONSOLIDATION CHEMOTHERAPY; EPIGENETICS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; AUTOGRAFT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATHOLOGY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AUTOGRAFTS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCONJUGATES; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84911007440     PISSN: 15588211     EISSN: 1558822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11899-014-0220-7     Document Type: Review

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