[Primary non-Hodgkin's high grade malignant lymphoma of the digestive system. A prospective study of the combination of surgery-chemotherapy-radiotherapy]

Abstract

We report a prospective study concerning the association of surgery-chemotherapy and radiotherapy in the treatment of primary high grade digestive non-Hodgkin's lymphomas in 19 patients. The analysis of 11 stages IE, 5 stages II1E and 3 stages II2E allowed us to evaluate the efficacy and the tolerance of this triple therapeutic association. Fifteen patients are alive and well with a median follow-up of 54 months. One of these patients relapsed, but after autologous bone marrow transplantation is in second unmaintained complete remission. Four patients died of intercurrent aetiology although one death was related to treatment morbidity. Our results and the analysis of literature data lead us to recommend the triple association in the treatment of stage II2E high grade primary digestive lymphomas (PDL) and for PDL without complete resection. However, surgery and chemotherapy appear to be sufficient in the treatment of stages IE and II1E with complete resection.