Treatment of follicular lymphoma.
Disease status | Treatment | Comment |
---|---|---|
Localized disease | RT | - Potentially curative (ISRT 24–30Gy) |
- The addition of systemic therapy to RT improves PFS but not OS | ||
Rituximab | - Radiotherapy ineligible patients | |
CIT | - Non-contiguous, bulky disease | |
Watch and wait | - Stable, asymptomatic patients | |
Advanced disease | Watch and wait | - Without treatment indications (Table 1) |
CIT± antibody maintenance | - Rituximab or obinutuzumab+(CHOP, CVP, Bebdamustine) | |
- Maintenance improves PFS but not OS | ||
Rituximab Lenalidomide+rituximab |
- For low tumor burden | |
- As effective as chemoimmunotherapy | ||
Relapsed disease | Watch and wait | - Stable, asymptomatic patients |
Palliative RT | - 2×2Gy | |
CIT± antibody maintenance | - Long previous remission with CIT | |
- Non-resistant regimen | ||
Rituximab | - For low tumor burden | |
Lenalidomide+rituximab | - POD≤24 months after CIT | |
PI3K inhibitors | - Double refractory disease | |
EZH2 inhibitor (tazemetostat) | - EZH2 mutation-positive disease | |
Radioimmunotherapy | - Not widely used | |
Auto/allo-HSCT | - In selected patients | |
CAR-T cell therapy | - After ≥2 lines of systemic therapy [63] |
Abbreviations: CAR-T, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell; CIT, chemoimmunotherapy; CR, complete response; EZH2, enhancer of zeste homolog 2; HSCT, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; ISRT, involved site RT; ORR, overall response rate; OS, overall survival; PFS, progression-free survival; PI3K, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase; POD, progression of disease; RT, radiotherapy.