Table 1.

Patients' characteristics

Patients' characteristics		Number of patients (n = 29)	%
Sex	Male	16	55.2
	Female	13	44.8
Age	> 60 years	17	58.6
	≤ 60 years	12	41.4
Ann Arbour clinical stage	I‐II	11	37.9
	III‐IV	18	62.1
IPI	0–2	19	65.5
	3–5	10	34.5
Bulky disease	Yes	10	65.5
	No	19	34.5
Irradiation first line	Yes	16	55.2
	No	13	44.8
Response to frontline R‐CHOP ± radiotherapy	Complete response	25	86.2
	Partial response	2	6.9
	Progressive disease/stable disease	2	6.9
	Overall response rate (complete + partial response)	27	93.1

IPI, International prognostic index.