title: Response to Rituximab Induction Is a Predictive Marker in B-Cell Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder and Allows Successful Stratification Into Rituximab or R-CHOP Consolidation in an International, Prospective, Multicenter Phase II Trial.
abstract: Purpose The Sequential Treatment of CD20-Positive Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder (PTLD-1) trial ( ClinicalTrials.gov identifier, NCT01458548) established sequential treatment with four cycles of rituximab followed by four cycles of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (CHOP) chemotherapy as a standard in the management of post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) and identified response to rituximab induction as a prognostic factor for overall survival. We hypothesized that rituximab consolidation might be sufficient treatment for patients with a complete response after rituximab induction. Patients and Methods In this prospective, international, multicenter phase II trial, 152 treatment-naive adult solid organ transplant recipients, with CD20+PTLD unresponsive to immunosuppression reduction, were treated with four weekly doses of rituximab induction. After restaging, complete responders continued with four courses of rituximab consolidation every 21 days; all others received four courses of rituximab plus CHOP chemotherapy every 21 days. The primary end point was treatment efficacy measured as the response rate in patients who completed therapy and the response duration in those who completed therapy and responded. Secondary end points were frequency of infections, treatment-related mortality, and overall survival in the intention-to-treat population. Results One hundred eleven of 126 patients had a complete or partial response (88%; 95% CI, 81% to 93%), of whom 88 had a complete response (70%; 95% CI, 61% to 77%). Median response duration was not reached. The 3-year estimate was 82% (95% CI, 74% to 90%). Median overall survival was 6.6 years (95% CI, 5.5 to 7.6 years). The frequency of grade 3 or 4 infections and of treatment-related mortality was 34% (95% CI, 27% to 42%) and 8% (95% CI, 5% to 14%), respectively. Response to rituximab induction remained a prognostic factor for overall survival despite treatment stratification. Conclusion In B-cell PTLD, treatment stratification into rituximab or rituximab plus CHOP consolidation on the basis of response to rituximab induction is feasible, safe, and effective.
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Ralf U
authors.initials: RU
authors.lastname: Trappe
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Daan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dierickx
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Heiner
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Franck
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Morschhauser
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mollee
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Jan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Zaucha
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Martin H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Dreyling
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Dührsen
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reinke
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Gregor
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Verhoef
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Subklewe
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hüttmann
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tousseyn
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salles
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kliem
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Ingeborg A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Hauser
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Corrado
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tarella
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Van Den Neste
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gheysens
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Anagnostopoulos
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Veronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Leblond
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Hanno
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Riess
authors.affiliation: Ralf U. Trappe and Heiner Zimmermann, DIAKO Evangelisches Diakonie-Krankenhaus Bremen, Bremen; University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel; Ralf U. Trappe, Petra Reinke, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, and Hanno Riess, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; Martin H. Dreyling and Marion Subklewe, University of Munich, Munich; Ulrich Dührsen and Andreas Hüttmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen; Volker Kliem, Nephrological Centre Lower Saxony, Hann. Münden; Ingeborg A. Hauser, J.W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Daan Dierickx, Gregor Verhoef, Thomas Tousseyn, and Olivier Gheysens, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven; Eric Van Den Neste, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; Franck Morschhauser, Hôpital Claude Huriez, Lille; Gilles Salles, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Université de Lyon, Pierre-Bénite; Veronique Leblond and Sylvain Choquet, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; Peter Mollee, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Jan M. Zaucha, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk; Polish Lymphoma Research Group, Warsaw, Poland; and Corrado Tarella, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Choquet
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000473:pathology; D003520:Cyclophosphamide / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D060828:Induction Chemotherapy; D007391:International Cooperation; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008232:Lymphoproliferative Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects; D011241:Prednisone / Q000008:administration & dosage; D011446:Prospective Studies; D000069283:Rituximab / Q000008:administration & dosage; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014750:Vincristine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000069283:Rituximab; D014750:Vincristine; D004317:Doxorubicin; D003520:Cyclophosphamide; D011241:Prednisone