A Blog from the Lymphoma Program at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian
In this video from OncLive, Lymphoma Program Director, Dr. John Leonard addresses the question of when is the best time to treat patients with follicular lymphoma. Noting that the majority of follicular lymphoma patients will not die from their disease, he suggests treatment should be based on symptomatic progression.
OncLive recently reported on a presentation made by Lymphoma Program Director, Dr. John Leonard at the 2016 International Congress on Hematologic Malignancies on novel treatments that could improve the long term survival of patients with follicular lymphoma. In introducing this topic he noted,
“Most patients will not die from follicular lymphoma, and that’s very reassuring. About 80% of patients will die with their follicular lymphoma and not of their follicular lymphoma…That really tells you something. If 80% of patients are not going to die from their disease, we can make a patient feel a lot better and can guide how we treat the patient.”
The article than summarizes Dr. Leonard’s discussion of these potential new treatments. Some of these treatments for follicular lymphoma are currently being investigated in clinical trials at Weill Cornell Medicine. If you are interested in a trial for follicular lymphoma, please look to our Joint Clinical Trials listings.
Recently, Lymphoma Program Director, Dr. John Leonard was interviewed by OncLive on the potential use of new therapies including lenalidomide, idelalisib, and ibrutinib in the treatment of follicular lymphoma. As Dr. Leonard noted,
“When patients relapse after initial therapy, the key factors in choosing a treatment include the time from first therapy, the time to reoccurrence, how sick they are, their age, and what they need in terms of symptom relief at that time…”
The full interview can be read here.
A list of available clinical trials for follicular lymphoma available at Weill Cornell Medicine can be found in our clinical trials listing.
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