title: The curability of follicular lymphoma.
abstract: Follicular lymphoma has been widely thought to be an incurable disease. However, if cure is defined as a remission that continues indefinitely and the patient eventually dies of another disease, some patients with follicular lymphoma are cured. Follicular lymphoma grade 3 acts much like diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and cure is frequent. Even in follicular lymphoma grade 1 and 2, some patients have durable responses to initial therapy, and a significant proportion of patients can have durable responses after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
authors.affiliation: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68583, USA. mlunning@unmc.edu
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lunning
authors.forename: James O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Armitage
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008224:Lymphoma, Follicular / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous