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ReviewJournal of blood medicine2020

Salvage Therapy for Hodgkin's Lymphoma: A Review of Current Regimens and Outcomes.

Luca Castagna, Armando Santoro, Carmelo Carlo-Stella

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Review in Journal of blood medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma Today.Mediterranean journal of hematology and infectious diseases · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luca CastagnaHumanitas Clinical and Research Center, IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan 20089, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6239-7387
Armando SantoroHumanitas Clinical and Research Center, IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan 20089, Italy.
Carmelo Carlo-StellaHumanitas Clinical and Research Center, IRCCS, Rozzano, Milan 20089, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3144-0124
Humanitas University · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Relapse/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma patients are still a clinical concern. Indeed, despite more effective first-line chemotherapy regimens and better stratification of unresponsive patients by clinical factors and use of early PET, roughly one-third of such patients need salvage chemotherapy and consolidation with high-dose chemotherapy. In this paper, the authors review the different salvage treatments, with special emphasis on newer combinations with brentuximab vedotin or check point inhibitors. The overall response rate is constantly increasing, with a complete remission rate approaching 80%. Functional response evaluation by PET imaging is a strong predictive factor of longer survival, and more sophisticated tools, such as detection of circulating tumour DNA, are emerging to refine the disease-status assessment after treatment. Consolidation by high-dose chemotherapy is still considered the standard of care in chemosensitive patients, leading to a high fraction of patients towards long-term disease control. Maintenance therapy with BV is now approved, reducing disease relapse/progression. An increasing number of Hodgkin lymphoma patients will be cured after first- and second-line therapy, and long-term toxicity needs to be continuously assessed and avoided.

Indexed as

brentuximab vedotincheckpoint inhibitorshigh-dose chemotherapyHodgkin lymphomarefractory/relapsed disease

Identifiers

PMID33149713
PMCPMC7603406
OpenAlexW3095352304

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