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Would you initiate chemoimmunotherapy (e.g. RCHOP) in a symptomatic patient with DLBCL who tested positive for COVID19?

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Hematology · UMass Chan Medical School

It will depend on if he is symptomatic from covid infection or just positive but asymptomatic.

If asymptomatic from covid, I would treat. DLBCL is the one which is symptomatic and active disease without treatment is equally immunosuppressive. I would suggest giving rituximab with cycle 2 rather than...

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