Rituximab Maintenance Cuts Follicular Lymphoma Recurrence Risk In Half — Phase III PRIMA Study Results

Rituximab Maintenance Cuts Follicular Lymphoma Recurrence Risk In Half — Phase III PRIMA Study Results

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28 June 2010

Patients in the PRIMA study who had achieved remissions for their follicular lymphoma by means of immunochemotherapy had only half the risk of recurrence if they also received maintenance therapy with

Gilles Salles

Gilles Salles, University of Lyon

Patients in the PRIMA study who had achieved remissions for their follicular lymphoma by means of immunochemotherapy had only half the risk of recurrence if they also received maintenance therapy with rituximab for two years compared with those who did not. Gilles Salles from the University of Lyon discussed his findings with Peter Goodwin during the 2010 European Hematology Association annual congress in Barcelona.



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