Hematological Oncology • Vol 41 • No S2
Outcomes of younger patients with mantle‐cell lymphoma experiencing late relapse (>24 months): the LATE‐POD study
June 2023 • Carlo Visco, C. Malinverni, E Florea, Ingrid Glimelius, Massimo Mirandola, Karin Ekström‐Smedby, Maria Chiara Tisi, Eva Giné, Alexandra Albertsson‐Li…
Introduction: Patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) have poor outcome. Time to first relapse or progression (POD) has been consistently shown to be an independent predictor of survival, with patients experiencing early-POD, within 2 years since the diagnosis, representing a subgroup at greater risk of death. On the contrary, there is a paucity of large-scale treatment data on patients experiencing relapse beyond 2 years (late-POD). Methods: In this international, observational cohor…