Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Yttrium 90-labeled ibritumomab effective for NHL patients

Published in Clinical Trials Week, December 6th, 2004

Yttrium 90-labeled ibritumomab radioimmunotherapy is safe and effective for previously-treated non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) patients.

In the journal Clinical Lymphoma, oncologists in Chicago presented "updated time-to-event variables of a phase III randomized study comparing yttrium 90-labeled ibritumomab with rituximab standard therapy in 143 rituximab-naive patients with relapsed or refractory low-grade, follicular, or transformed CD20⁺" NHL.

"Most patients (79%) had follicular lymphoma," noted L.I. Gordon and coauthors at Northwestern University. "Patients were randomized to receive a single intravenous (i.v.) dose of...

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Source: Clinical Trials Week (2004-12-06)

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