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What frontline treatment would you offer a patient with AITL who is not a candidate for an anthracycline due to baseline cardiomyopathy?

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Medical Oncology · The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center / James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
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I would probably offer this patient CEOP. No data to back this up, however. Incorporation of etoposide in addition to CHOP confers a progression-free survival advantage in younger patients with PTCL, so it's reasonable to assume the etoposide would have activity.

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