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What treatment considerations do you make for elderly patients with relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma?

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Medical Oncology · City of Hope

Treatment options for R/R FL patients depend not only on the condition of the patient but what was received in 1st line and the duration of that line of therapy. Given that if a patient has received chemo-immunotherapy in the frontline setting and had a prolonged remission (> 5 years), then these ag...

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Medical Oncology · Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Taking age into consideration is of course, important and relevant, but it is not the only or even, oftentimes, the key determinant in treatment decision-making in follicular lymphoma. Age, performance status, comorbidities, mobility, independence (both ADLs as well as travel/transit), patient prefe...

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