Julie M. Vose

TL;DR: New guidelines incorporating PET, IHC, and flow cytometry for definitions of response in non-Hodgkin's and Hodgkin's lymphoma are presented and it is hoped that they will be adopted widely by study groups, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, and regulatory agencies to facilitate the development of new and more effective therapies to improve the outcome of patients with lymphoma.

TL;DR: DNA microarrays can be used to formulate a molecular predictor of survival after chemotherapy for diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma and this gene-based predictor and the international prognostic index were independent prognostic indicators.

TL;DR: Standardized guidelines for response assessment are needed to ensure comparability among clinical trials in non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL), and two meetings were convened among United States and international lymphoma experts to develop a uniform set of criteria for assessing response in clinical trials.

TL;DR: The use of an anthracycline-containing regimen was not associated with an improved outcome in PTCL-NOS or angioimmunoblastic type, but was associated with a better outcome in anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, ALK positive.

TL;DR: Survival after treatment of diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma is influenced by differences in immune cells, fibrosis, and angiogenesis in the tumor microenvironment, and a multivariate model created from three gene-expression signatures predicted survival both in patients who received CHOP and patients who receive R-CHOP.