Is rituximab one for all ages and each sex?
- PMID: 24482494
- DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-12-543314
Is rituximab one for all ages and each sex?
Abstract
In this issue of Blood, Pfreundschuh et al report that young males treated with rituximab-based immunochemotherapy in contrast to elderly males benefit as much as females from rituximab immunochemotherapy and patients with more rapid rituximab clearance have reduced therapeutic benefit.
Comment on
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Suboptimal dosing of rituximab in male and female patients with DLBCL.Blood. 2014 Jan 30;123(5):640-6. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-07-517037. Epub 2013 Dec 2. Blood. 2014. PMID: 24297867 Clinical Trial.
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