What is your preferred salvage therapy for patients with follicular lymphoma who relapsed within 24 months of completing front-line chemoimmunotherapy (POD24) and will proceed to high-dose therapy with Auto-SCT?
Do you have a preference on the regimen or cycle number, and how and when do you assess response prior to transplant?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
There is no standard therapy for patients progressing within 24 months of 1L chemoimmunotherapy. If you have a well-designed clinical trial, I would do this 1st. Outside of a clinical trial, I would 1st try to biopsy a hot spot to r/o large B-cell transformation. If so, if the patient is a candidate...