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. 2014 Mar 25;120(12):1830–1837. doi: 10.1002/cncr.28659

Table 4.

Summary of Second-Line Treatment

 Second-Line Treatment R-Maintenance (n=130) Observation (n=189)
Second-line treatment, no. (%)
 R-monotherapy 47 (36) 78 (41)
 R-chemotherapy 40 (31) 57 (30)
 Chemotherapy 13 (10) 7 (4)
 Investigational therapy 9 (7) 14 (7)
 Radiotherapy 5 (4) 18 (10)
 Radioimmunotherapy 8 (6) 9 (5)
 Bone marrow transplant 1 (1) 0 (0)
 CM: radiotherapy 1 (1) 1 (<1)
 CM: radioimmunotherapy 1 (1) 2 (1)
 CM: bone marrow transplant 3 (2) 2 (1)
 Other 2 (2) 1 (<1)
Reason to start second-line treatment
 PD 125 (96) 173 (92)
 Maintain a response 1 (1) 2 (1)
 Other 4 (3) 14 (7)
Best response to second-line treatment
 CR/PR 72 (61) 100 (57)
 SD 23 (19) 31 (18)
 PD 23 (19) 44 (25)

Abbreviations: CM, combined modality; CR, complete response; PD, progressive disease; PR, partial response; R-chemotherapy, rituximab plus chemotherapy; R-maintenance, rituximab maintenance; R-monotherapy, rituximab monotherapy; SD, stable disease.