Updates from the 2016 American Society of Hematology annual meeting: practice-changing studies in untreated follicular lymphoma

ABSTRACT: The 2016 annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology took place in San Diego, California, 3–6 December. At the meeting, results from key studies on the first-line treatment of follicular lymphoma were presented. Of those studies, key oral presentations included two analyzing data from the gallium study, which evaluated the efficacy and safety of obinutuzumab plus chemotherapy (G-chemo) compared with rituximab plus chemotherapy (R-chemo), followed, in responding patients with follicular lymphoma, by obinutuzumab or rituximab maintenance; results from the sabrina study, which evaluated the efficacy and safety of subcutaneous compared with intravenous rituximab; results of a cost-effectiveness analysis of first-line treatment with bendamustine and rituximab from a Canadian perspectiv

SUBMITTER: Owen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5330630 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature