Risk adapted high-dose and dose-dense therapies modulate the impact of biological classification in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma prognosis

Abstract

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a highly heterogeneous disease entity. Young patients with high-intermediate and high aa-IPI score seem to be good candidates to receive alternative treatments to standard RCHOP-21 including EPOCH-R,2 R-ACVBP+HDT-ASCT3 and upfront autologous stem cell transplantation. Other risk factors can be used to identify patients for the use of more doseintense regimens including bulky disease, interim PET positivity and, importantly, molecular profiles.