BCEEEF 2011: Treatment of elderly non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients.
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Prof Pier Luigi Zinzani - University of Bologna, Italy and Prof Bertrand Coiffier - Hospices Civils de Lyon, France
Prof Pier Luigi Zinzani and Bertrand Coiffier speak about the challenges faced when treating elderly patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, specifically diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma.
The current standard of treatment for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is R-CHOP, however this combination can only be tolerated by fitter elderly patients. Clinicians must decide if the patient is fit enough for the intensive curative treatment, and if they are not, should attempt to prolong survival and maximise patient quality of life.
Follicular lymphoma can only be cured in a small proportion of patients and treatment should be aimed at maximising patient quality of life. Profs Zinzani and Coiffier explain that doctors must first decide if to treat the patient or to use the 'watch and wait' approach, talk about the impact of maintenance therapy with rituximab and discuss the role low toxicity targeted treatments such as lenalidomide and bortezomib could play in the future of follicular lymphoma treatment.
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