Long-term outcomes of patients with primary intestinal follicular lymphoma managed with watch-and-wait strategy.

ABSTRACT: Patients with primary intestinal follicular lymphoma are often followed-up without a specific treatment, and this approach is called the "watch-and-wait approach." However, the long-term outcomes of this patient group have not been sufficiently investigated. We enrolled patients with primary intestinal follicular lymphoma who were diagnosed before 2016 and managed with the watch-and-wait approach in 20 institutions. We retrospectively investigated the overall, disease-specific, and event-free survival rates as well as the rate of spontaneous regression. Among the 248 patients with follicular lymphoma with gastrointestinal involvement, 124 had localized disease (stage I or II₁). We analyzed the data of 73 patients who were managed using the watch-and-wait approach. During the mea

SUBMITTER: Iwamuro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10090188 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature