A Phase II Study of Rituximab Combined With CHOP in T-cell Angio-immunoblastic Lymphoma

Summary

To evaluate the efficacy and the safety of a front-line treatment combining CHOP regimen and rituximab in patients aged 60 to 80 years with previously untreated AIL.

Timeline

Start

2005-12

Primary completion

2008-12

Completion

2012-11

Publications

• Background Attygalle A, Al-Jehani R, Diss TC, Munson P, Liu H, Du MQ, Isaacson PG, Dogan A. Neoplastic T cells in angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma express CD10. Blood. 2002 Jan 15;99(2):627-33. doi: 10.1182/blood.v99.2.627.
• Background Lome-Maldonado C, Canioni D, Hermine O, Delabesse E, Damotte D, Raffoux E, Gaulard P, Macintyre E, Brousse N; French Groupe d'Etude des Lymphomes de l'Adulte (GELA). Angio-immunoblastic T cell lymphoma (AILD-TL) rich in large B cells and associated with Epstein-Barr virus infection. A different subtype of AILD-TL? Leukemia. 2002 Oct;16(10):2134-41. doi: 10.1038/sj.leu.2402642.
• Background Zettl A, Lee SS, Rudiger T, Starostik P, Marino M, Kirchner T, Ott M, Muller-Hermelink HK, Ott G. Epstein-Barr virus-associated B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders in angloimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma and peripheral T-cell lymphoma, unspecified. Am J Clin Pathol. 2002 Mar;117(3):368-79. doi: 10.1309/6UTX-GVC0-12ND-JJEU.
• Background Gisselbrecht C, Gaulard P, Lepage E, Coiffier B, Briere J, Haioun C, Cazals-Hatem D, Bosly A, Xerri L, Tilly H, Berger F, Bouhabdallah R, Diebold J. Prognostic significance of T-cell phenotype in aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Groupe d'Etudes des Lymphomes de l'Adulte (GELA). Blood. 1998 Jul 1;92(1):76-82.

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