Interview with the Innovators

Predicting High-Risk Disease Using Progression of Disease in 24 Months (POD24) and the Key Role of Repeat Biopsy to Exclude the Diagnosis of Transformation to a High-Grade Lymphoma in Patients with Relapsed Follicular Lymphoma

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Featuring:

Tycel J. Phillips, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
Ann Arbor, MI
Peg Rummel, MHA, RN, OCN, NE-BC
Oncology Nurse Navigator
Hematology/Head & Neck Clinical Services
University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA
Andrew D. Zelenetz, MD, PhD
Medical Oncologist and Medical Director
Quality Informatics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College Chair, Lymphoma Research Foundation, Scientific Advisory Board
New York, NY

Dr Andrew Zelenetz explains the basis for the currently nearly universal use of the end point of “progression of disease in 24 months” (POD24) as a metric in patients with relapsed follicular lymphoma (FL) to identify a high-risk subpopulation. He also discusses how POD24 impacts the choice of therapy and assessing the impact of the next line of therapy. Dr Tycel Phillips emphasized the importance of repeat biopsy in patients with relapsed or refractory FL, to exclude the presence of histologic transformation of FL into a high-grade diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, which necessitates expeditious detection, staging, and aggressive therapy.

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