Would you recommend allogeneic stem cell transplantation for consolidation in a patient with follicular lymphoma who relapsed within 13 months of initial chemo-immunotherapy?

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Answer from: at Community Practice

It depends so much on the patient, especially age. I think with CART being approved in FL, I’d probably hold allo until after CART in most cases.

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Medical Oncologist at Texas Oncology
Agree with Dr. @Elizabeth Brem, assuming the wait ...

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution

I think it's really hard to go to allo early right now for the treatment of FL. For early relapses following chemoimmunotherapy, it's important to rigorously exclude transformation, as it seems that transformed lymphoma is most (all?) of the reason pulling survival curves down in the POD24 populatio...

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