Research Article

Less Intensive Regimens May Still Be Suitable for the Initial Treatment of Primary Mediastinal B-Cell Lymphoma in Resource-Limited Settings

Table 4

Real-world data on R-CHOP versus DA-EPOCH-R in PMBCL.

StudyNConsolidation RTSurvival-value

Shah et al. [25]R-CHOP (n = 56)R-CHOP: 59%R-CHOP: 2 y PFS = 76%0.28
DA-EPOCH-R (n = 76)DA-EPOCH-R: 13%DA-EPOCH-R 28: 2 y PFS = 85%
Malenda et al. [26]R-CHOP (n = 25)R-CHOP: 100%R-CHOP: 1 y PFS = 87%0.2
DA-EPOCH-R (n = 28)DA-EPOCH-R: 59%DA-EPOCH-R: 5 y PFS = 73.9%
Chan et al. [11]R‐CHOP (n = 41)R-CHOP: 47%R‐CHOP: 5 y PFS = 56%0.02
R‐CHOP + RT (n = 37)DA-EPOCH-R: 6%R‐CHOP + RT: 5 y PFS = 90%
DA‐EPOCH‐R (n = 46)DA‐EPOCH‐R: 5 y PFS = 88.5%
Eule et al. [29]R-CHOP (n = 9)100% in R-CHOP arm3 y OS (both arms): 96%N.R.
DA-EPOCH-R (n = 18)
Present studyR-CHOP (n = 33)R-CHOP: 83%R-CHOP: 5 y PFS = 79%0.9
R-CHOEP (n = 18)R-CHOEP: 83%R-CHOEP: 5 y PFS = 83%
DA-EPOCH-R (n = 39)DA-EPOCH-R: 44%DA-EPOCH-R: 5 y PFS = 75%