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Open AccessSecondary central nervous system involvement in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma treated with rituximab combined CHOP therapy – a supplementary analysis of JCOG0601
Secondary central nervous system involvement (sCNSi) in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is fatal. However, its features in patients with sCNSi who are categorized as lower risk by international prognosti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bidirectional Loading Test of Buckling-Restrained Braces with Gusset Plate Connections
Buckling-restrained braces (BRBs) are a type of seismic device and are employed in steel moment-resisting frames and other building and civil engineering structures. Previous studies have examined the behavior...
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Open AccessHealth-related quality of life in the phase III GALLIUM study of obinutuzumab- or rituximab-based chemotherapy in patients with previously untreated advanced follicular lymphoma
Health-related quality of life was a secondary endpoint in the phase III GALLIUM study in previously untreated patients with follicular lymphoma who were treated with rituximab- or obinutuzumab-chemotherapy. P...
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Efficacy and safety of obinutuzumab in patients with previously untreated follicular lymphoma: a subgroup analysis of patients enrolled in Japan in the randomized phase III GALLIUM trial
GALLIUM is a global phase III study that demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) with obinutuzumab plus chemotherapy (G-chemo) versus r...
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Bendamustine plus rituximab for previously untreated patients with indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma or mantle cell lymphoma: a multicenter Phase II clinical trial in Japan
A Phase II, multicenter clinical trial of bendamustine plus rituximab (BR) regimen was conducted in previously untreated patients with high-tumor-burden indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) and previou...
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Prediction of high risk for death in patients with follicular lymphoma receiving rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone in first-line chemotherapy
Risk stratification of patients with relapsed and refractory follicular lymphoma (FL) remains challenging. Recently, much attention has been paid to the impact of early progression of disease within 2 years of...
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Proposed diagnostic criteria, disease severity classification and treatment strategy for TAFRO syndrome, 2015 version
TAFRO syndrome is a systemic inflammatory disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia, anasarca including pleural effusion and ascites, fever, renal insufficiency, and organomegaly including hepatosplenomegaly ...
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Phase I dose-escalation study of cyclophosphamide combined with bortezomib and dexamethasone in Japanese patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma
The present study was conducted to determine the recommended dose (RD) of cyclophosphamide (CPM) in the CBD regimen, a triplet combination of CPM, bortezomib (BTZ), and dexamethasone (Dex), for relapsed and/or...
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Salvage therapy with single agent L-asparaginase followed by local irradiation in an elderly patient with CD56-positve primary isolated extramedullary T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma of the sinus
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Phase II study of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisolone (CHOP) therapy for newly diagnosed patients with low- and low–intermediate risk, aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: final results of the Japan Clinical Oncology Group Study, JCOG9508
The regimen of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisolone, known as CHOP therapy, has been established as the standard treatment for aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). Although patients...
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Retrospective analysis of primary gastric diffuse large B cell lymphoma in the rituximab era: a multicenter study of 95 patients in Japan
Primary gastric diffuse large B cell lymphoma (PG-DLBCL) is common subtype of extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The optimal treatment strategy for PG-DLBCL in the rituximab era still remains unknown. To evaluat...
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Phase II study of ABVd therapy for newly diagnosed clinical stage II–IV Hodgkin lymphoma: Japan Clinical Oncology Group study (JCOG 9305)
Although ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine) therapy has been regarded as a standard of care for advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) since 1992, there has been no prospective data of AB...
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Prognostic analysis and a new risk model for Hodgkin lymphoma in Japan
The Japan Clinical Oncology Group conducted two multicenter phase II trials in 200 patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) in the 1990s. Among 181 patients whose histopathological specimens were available...
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Evaluation of organ involvement in intravascular large B-cell lymphoma by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
To evaluate the role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) in intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVLBCL), we retrospectively analyzed four consecutive IVLBCL patients receiving FDG-PE...
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Epigenetic Regulation of CD20 Protein Expression in a Novel B-Cell Lymphoma Cell Line, RRBL1, Established from a Patient Treated Repeatedly with Rituximab-Containing Chemotherapy
Rituximab is a chimeric monoclonal antibody to the surface antigen CD20 and has provided better outcomes against CD20+ B-cell lymphomas than chemotherapy with conventional antitumor drugs alone. Treatment with ri...
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Promoter Hypermethylation of the DNA-Repair Gene O 6 -Methylguanine—DNA Methyltransferase and p53 Mutation in Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma
The gene for the DNA-repair enzyme O 6-methylguanine—DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), which is closely related with cellular sensitivity to alkylating agents, is inactivated by promoter hypermethylation in several h...
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Loss of O 6-Methylguanine-DNA Methyltransferase Protein Expression Is a Favorable Prognostic Marker in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
Although aberrant promoter hypermethylation of O 6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) is a favorable prognostic marker in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), MGMT protein expression has n...
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A Case of Interstitial Pneumonia Induced by Rituximab Therapy
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A Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating the Survival Benefit of Dose-Intensified Multidrug Combination Chemotherapy (LSG9) for Intermediate- or High-Grade Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: Japan Clinical Oncology Group Study 9002
The effect of enhancing the dose intensity (DI) of the key drugs in multidrug combination chemotherapy for malignant lymphoma is uncertain. We investigated the survival benefit of dose-intensified multidrug co...
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Epigenetic Inactivation of Tumor Suppressor Genes in Hematologic Malignancies
A number of genetic alterations are involved in the development of hematologic malignancies. These alterations include the activation of oncogenes by chromosomal translocation or gene amplification and the ina...