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Frontline therapy with rituximab added to the combination of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (CHOP) significantly improves the outcome for patients with advanced-stage follicular lymphoma compared with therapy with CHOP alone: results of a prospective randomized study of the German Low-Grade Lymphoma Study Group

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Adding rituximab to CHOP significantly improves the outcome for patients with previously untreated advanced-stage FL and does not induce major adverse effects.
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This article is published in Blood.The article was published on 2005-12-01. It has received 1275 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: CHOP & Refractory Follicular Lymphoma.

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Follicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index.

TL;DR: The Follicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index was designed from the data recorded over 8 years of nearly 5000 patients registered worldwide to help provide an optimal treatment option for patients with follicular lymphoma.
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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

TL;DR: Since this topic was last reviewed in The Lancet in 2012, advances in understanding the biology and genetics of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and the availability of new diagnostic methods and therapies have improved the ability to manage patients with this disorder.
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Report of an International Workshop to Standardize Response Criteria for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas

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.
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World Health Organization classification of neoplastic diseases of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues: report of the Clinical Advisory Committee meeting-Airlie House, Virginia, November 1997.

TL;DR: The experience of developing the WHO Classification has produced a new and exciting degree of cooperation and communication between oncologists and pathologists from around the world, which should facilitate progress in the understanding and treatment of hematologic malignancies.
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Rituximab chimeric anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody therapy for relapsed indolent lymphoma: half of patients respond to a four-dose treatment program.

TL;DR: The response rate of 48% with IDEC-C2B8 is comparable to results with single-agent cytotoxic chemotherapy, and further investigation of this agent is warranted, including its use in conjunction with standard chemotherapy.
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