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Given the rarity of this diagnosis (5-7% of all AL amyloidosis cases), and the prognostic and clinical differences when compared to non IgM-AL am...
My experience has been that patients can be neurologically devastated years out from WBRT. In Medical Oncology practice at my institution, we do not r...
Does the safety profile impact your choice significantly?
Does your first choice vary by disease histology?
It is understood that the trials experience was to keep on treatment indefinitely until progression or unacceptable toxicity. We are asking about real...
If so, what regimen do you utilize?
In a refractory DLBCL of entire circumference of leg below knee, how do you spare a tissue strip for lymph node drainage?
Would you give R-CHOP without knowing if there was use of prior anthracycline?
Do you have a preferred sequence of therapies for diffuse skin limited MF?
Are you more inclined to use non cytotoxic regimens such as R2 or PI3K inhibitors?
What about changing standard regimens for TCL with HLH?
How does your treatment approach vary depending on the underlying predisposition?
Given the POLARIX study data presented at ASH 2021, will this replace R-CHOP as the standard of care therapy in your practice? If not, how will y...
Is there any role for radiation therapy alone?
If the patient cannot tolerate methotrexate or further chemotherapy, how effective is radiation therapy (e.g. WBRT) in rendering the patient disease-f...
Ki67 = 90% with multiple small nodes on PET scan and normal CBC
Patient in mid-30s with no major medical history presented with isolated left neck swelling. Incisional biopsy w/ HTLV1/2 associated ATLL, Ki67 of >...
Do your recommendations differ between those who receive ABVD and escalated BEACOPP?
Do you recommend consultation with fertility specialists for all...
If the patient has received RCHOPx3 and the post treatment PET is negative, what would your management be?
What would you recommend in the case of ABVD or BEACOPP?
Would your recommendations change if the mass were significantly smaller, say 1-2 cm, and was completely excised with negative margins?
How does age play a role in this decision? If you do intensify therapy, how do you explain the negative results of CALGB/Alliance 50303?
Does the rate of progression of IgM influence your decision?
Would you use ALK inhibitors such as crizotinib based on recent phase II data?
Are there any research efforts to combine ALK inhibitors with current ...
Are there any subsets of patients that you're more inclined to offer maintenance?
In particular, for frail patients to avoid toxicity or for those that do not want chemotherapy
Are there other regimens you employ for patients unsuitable for standard chemotherapy?
Do you prefer a cHL chemotherapy backbone or PMBL chemotherapy backbone?
Given nationwide shortage in vinblastine, several of my patients under active therapy are facing delays in their therapies. Is it appropriate to subst...
Would you use R-CHOP or a more intensive chemotherapy regimen? Would you consolidate with radiation therapy after 3 cycles or use systemic thera...
Would you offer refractory doses (40-50 Gy) to the RPnodes and send for splenectomy? Or would you offer refractory doses to both RP nodes and spleen?&...
Have the RAPID or CALGB 5064 studies changed your treatment approach?
When do you consider splenectomy? Is there a role for splenic radiation in non-surgical candidates?
For instance, if the tissue came back SLL, Waldenstrom's, follicular lymphoma, or even nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma, would any or a...
Would you utilize radiation along with systemic therapy?
An otherwise healthy patient with spleen only diffuse large B cell lymphoma with mild spleenomegaly, Spleenectomy plus Rchop or Rchop plus RT?
Bulky adenopathy compressed bilateral ureters, CrCl < 30, post stent placement, but renal function has plateaued
NCCN recommends either ISRT with rituximab/chemotherapy or ISRT alone in this scenario. What factors help your decision making?
What if it is a young patient?
We have a patient with stage IIa Hodgkin's disease with a cluster of lymphadenopathy in the cervical area. The diameter of the cluster is 6.1cm per CT...
Do you only give intrathecal chemotherapy or systemic therapy?
Do you treat as you would a B-ALL? Does amount of nodal stations/disease matter?
What are the scenarios in which a rebiopsy is warranted for follicular lymphoma?
CT scans show omental and pelvic disease.
Would your recommendation change if the patient was HIV positive?
Would you consider this refractory disease and go on to salvage regimen and auto-SCT, or is there a role for definitive XRT to the site of residual di...
TROG 99.03 showed nearly 20% improved PFS at 10 years with chemoimmunotherapy despite 31/75 patients assigned R-CVP vs 44/75 assigned CVP without ritu...
Is there a preference for obinutuzumab over rituximab in early relapsed DLBCL, or in primary refractory disease?
What if the patient has a history of confirmed COVID-19 but has since recovered?
At what age would you treat an early stage hodgkins lymphoma patient with ABVD + RT (adult treatment) vs OEPA x 2 or AV-PC x 3 (pediatric paradigm)?&n...
How do you decide between WBRT, maintenance chemotherapy, or stem cell transplantation?
There are conflicting reports of increased incidence of bleomycin-induced lung toxicity with G-CSF.
There are multiple regimens including IGEV and most recently reported results of BEGEV without preference on NCCN guidelines.
Risk of CNS relapse in a reported series is less than 5%.
Given the rarity of DLBCL with MYC/BCL2/BCL6 rearrangements, do you approach this disease differently than DLBCL with MYC/BCL2 or BCL6 rearrangement, ...
Would you monitor or directly offer systemic therapy?
Do the potential late effects offset any benefit of mediastinal XRT in a young patient with bulky disease?
Would your choice be affected by which high risk features the patient has (eg. double- or triple-hit status vs IPI score of 3-4)?
There is a national shortage of vincristine.
Would your choice be affected by a patient's eligibility for transplant or CAR-T therapy?
Would your choice change if concurrent therapeutic anticoag...
There are multiple options that carry a category 2B recommendation in the NCCN guidelines. Does germinal B center type vs activated B-cell type play a...
Do these events mandate discontinuation of lenalidomide therapy or switching to a different agent? Can appropriate therapy for these skin cancers be r...
For a stage IAE DLBCL (in this case, of the oral cavity) that was completely excised, s/p R-CHOP, is the ISRT target volume just the preop volume plus...
(ie Deuvelle criteria 1-3) Is it appropriate to discontinue brentuximab like you would with bleomycin?
Specifically, do you consider repeating maintenance therapy after second line therapy if a patient had already received 2 years of maintenance rituxim...
If a young and otherwise healthy patient with normal echocardiogram and no other cardiac risk factors needs treatment for DLBCL, but has previously re...
Specifically, do you utilize 3 cycles of chemo with ISRT or 6 cycles? Do you use R-EPOCH or R-CHOP in these cases?
e.g. mixed indolent/aggressive NHL, mixed NHL/HL? Is there a definitive way to discern composite from transformation? NCCN does not list recommendatio...
Have you changed your practice based off the FLYER trial presented at ASH 2018?
How would you handle high risk features (eg double hit) with the limitations of dialysis?
Although not approved, for example, are you every using AVD-nivolumab?
Would you give 3 cycles of RCHOP followed by consolidative IFRT or 6 cycles of R-mini CHOP? Is there a role for 3 cycles of R-mini CHOP followed by IF...
Assuming the patient has an indication for treatment.
Assuming there are no other indications at the moment.
Some specific questions:
Would you recommend repeat biopsy to confirm residual disease?
How would your recommendations vary if the patient had pre...
I.e., Can day 2 Rituximab (RCHOP) or day 6 Rituximab (DA-EPOCH, Hyper CVAD) be given? Or should only Day 1 Rituximab be used with chemoimmunotherapy i...
Since some prior studies (eg. Eskelund et al. Blood 2017 130:1903-10.) have shown intensive chemoimmunotherapy does not overcome the ad...
Since ECHELON-1 trial showed an improvement in PFS (but not OS), are there any situations where you would replace bleomycin with brentuximab...
Would you follow an algorithm such as the one proposed by Hall et al?
How do you decide between intrathecal chemotherapy vs systemic therapy with HD-...
Pathology is clear this is not a concurrent DLBCL and is indeed transformed CLL
How do you assess chemosensitive vs chemorefractory disease?
Given the results of ZUMA-7, TRANSFORM, and BELINDA - will you be altering your current ...
Is there a specific Ki67 percentage? P53-negativity?
If they are symptomatic do you relax that time interval? Do you ever consider partial brain radiation instead of whole brain to minimize neurotoxicity...
I have received inquiry from a patient's gastroenterologist regarding use of Entyvio or Stelara in such a situation.
Would you use a similar dose and fractionation as gastric MALT (30Gy in 1.5 Gy fractions)?
Should prechemo PET positive disease from bowel or other structures be carved out?
Would the site of disease relapse play a role in your decision (i.e. isolated lymph node recurrence versus failure at primary site of disease)?
Shanafelt et al. recently presented results from the phase III E1912 study at ASH 2018. Will you still utilize FCR as first-line or now use Ritux...
Do you use etoposide-based regimens such as R-CEPP? How about substitution with liposomal doxorubicin?
Would you consider observation following surgical resection with negative margins? Would you recommend WBRT and/or ISRT? What would be your preferred ...
How about if disease is found in the CSF?
Would you consider switching regimens?
Would you treat differently for de novo disease vs disease arising from large cell transformation of an indolent NHL?
Does their candidacy for autologous HSCT affect your decision to use maintenance lenalidomide?
How do you determine whether to add intrathecal chemotherapy in patients with +CSF? Would your approach change for primary vs secondary CNS lymphoma?
Does the more recent data regarding the continued utility of brentuximab vedotin and the utility of PD-1 inhibitors factor in to your reasoning at all...
Does it differ from the treatment of other relapsed peripheral T-cell lymphomas?
Are there any clinical trials or case series focused on SPTCL?
Is t...
Would you use 10 Gy in 1 Gy per fraction as mentioned in a litterature review in Pubmed?
What factors influence your choice to treat as well as dose and target?
In the case of an excised groin node with no residual disease and no chemotherapy in a young adult patient, how large should the fields be? Is it requ...
Assuming that the involved area is too widespread for RT. Would you try single agent rituximab first? Or obinutuzumab? What if rituximab alone gave on...
The recent NEJM phase II trial http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1715519?query=featured_home looked at a small cohort of 24 patients and show...
the MZL was untreated in the past prior to transformation.
Do these patients have a higher risk of recurrence post CR as opposed to patients with de ...
Would you consider resection? Or maybe anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody?
The CALGB regimen is quite complicated.
If filgrastim, how many days would you give? Pegfilgrastim is often not covered by payers if given less than 14 days before chemotherapy.
Specifically I am thinking if a PET scan shows complete response, would it be reasonable to stop bleomycin and continue AVD?
PET/CT/bone marrow biopsy negative for evidence of distant disease. Following 4 cycles of combination chemotherapy with no evidence of progressive dis...
With the advent of many new agents, any thought to initial therapy different from CHOP or CHOEP?
Although bendamustine + rituximab is a standard option for advanced follicular lymphoma when treatment is required, does the regimen rituximab + lenal...
If so, do you use antivirals and/or antibiotics? Does it matter if the patient has mantle cell lymphoma, CLL, or Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia?
Specifically, is there still a role for dd RCHOP followed by ICE, or do you recommend DA-R-EPOCH for all patients?
NCCN guidelines suggest XRT as standard of care for this stage of disease. However, occasionally patients have their tumors completely excised when un...
When treating with radiation therapy, what dose-fractionation do you typically utilize?
With the field moving more toward ISRT/ INRT, and conformal radiation, would you generate separate PTV for initial nodal involvements that are within ...
If so, what data should be presented to insurance companies to cover the cost?
When nodal regions not amenable to biopsy but are enlarged without significant SUV uptake, should they be treated as involed and recieve RT?
After ABVE-PC X4 and Ifos/vinorelbine x 2 per AHOD 0831 (and is unable to have these sites biopsied), what dose would you treat to and what volume wou...
When radiation therapy is utilized, what should the radiation therapy treatment fields include and what imaging studies should be completed to assist ...
If so, should involved site radiation thearpy (ISRT) or involved field radiation therapy (IFRT) be used for the radiation therapy treatment fields? Wo...
Are the results of AHOD0031 practice changing?
When the disease (in this case, lymphoma) involves almost all of the entire muscle compartment of the distal lower extremity, what is a safe dose? I'm...
If a patient with stage I, low grade follicular lymphoma achieves a complete response after rituxan and treanda is there any role for consolidative ra...
Specifically for marginal zone or follicle center?
Is it necessary to treat the whole orbit or is conformal treatment ok?
After a nerve sparing parotidectomy, would you offer postoperative radiotherapy? If so, what volume and dose? Would it change your management if the p...
In a patient with Stage IE DLBCL, is your treatment volume postchemo ISRT or whole breast? Would you consolidate if a lumpectomy was performed prior t...
Would you prescribe to a higher dose? Treat with wider margins? Encourage the use of systemic therapy?
Hoskin et al (Lancet Oncology 2014) suggest 24Gy/12fx is more effect RT dose compared to 4Gy.
Is there a benefit to IMRT when we treat to relatively low doses (as compared to squamous cell cancers of the head and neck)?
Or is it more appropriate for certain sites/stages/histologies?
Specifically, for a diffuse large B cell lymphoma of the femur?
It seems that with the arms up, you get better lung blocking but with arms akimbo, you might have a lower dose to the humeral head.
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