ONCOLOGY: Can Intensive Immunochemotherapy Cure Mantle Cell Lymphoma?

Audio Journal of Oncology, December 11th, 2007 Reporting from: American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, December 8-11 2007, Atlanta Can Intensive Immunochemotherapy Cure Mantle Cell Lymphoma? CHRISTIAN GEISLER, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen REFERENCE: ABSTRACT LB1, ASH 2007 Mantle cell lymphoma, which was previously considered incurable, has apparently been cured in some patients on a phase II study. Derek Thorne got the details on the study – which featured an intensive immunochemotherapy approach - from Christian Geisler of Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen.