I am undergoing Rituxin treatment for nodal marginal zone lymphoma, finished last of 4 weekly treatments. Then 1 every 2 months for 2 years. Diagnosed at regular physical, no symptoms, but stage IV, bone marrow involved.How/when will remission be defined?

Submitted by stikky Mon 08/22/2011

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The response (to treatment)

Submitted by Ross Bonander on Wed, 08/24/2011 - 13:10.

The response (to treatment) criteria and definitions as they pertain to malignant lymphomas were first laid out in I think 1999 through an international workshop (http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/17/4/1244.long), they were then revised slighly in 2007 (http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/25/5/579.long), but this is probably about where things stand. As you'll see from the citations, it's a rather complex scheme, but it does provide for hematologist/oncologists a frame within which to work.

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Submitted by stikky on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 06:07.

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