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Query: UMLS:C0079731 (B-cell lymphoma)
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Lymphomas are among the tumors most responsive to chemotherapeutic agents and radiation therapy. Despite chemotherapeutic and radiological advances, tumor cell resistance still remains a problem, and the toxicity of chemotherapy and radiation therapy limits their potential. Less toxic therapies for lymphoma have been continued to search for effectiveness. Since the discovery of the hybridoma technology by Kohler and Milstein in 1975, utilizing antibodies as targeted therapy for lymphoma has been investigated for many years. After 20 years of clinical trials, monoclonal antibody therapy of lymphoma enters the new millennium ready for 'prime time'. Investigators' early enthusiasm was dampened by problems with tumor targeting, HAMA, and allergic reactions, but important advances in molecular biology and chelation chemistry have led to new and improved reagents. Rituximab(IDEC-C2B8) has already been approved by the FDA in USA and the Ministry of Welfare and Labour in Japan for relapsed CD20-positive lymphomas and indolent B-cell lymphoma including mantle cell lymphoma, respectively. Ibritumomab tiuxetan and iodine-131 anti-B1 antibody have an excellent anti-lymphoma profile, and both appear to have higher response rates than rituximab. Results from the rituximab vs. ibritumomab tiuxetan phase III trial clearly favor the latter especially in %CR. Radiolabeled Lym-1, T101, LL2, and anti-Tac data will be forthcoming. Continued refinements of immunotoxins will establish their possible therapeutic role, and a variety of antibody conjugates including drugs, prodrugs, nonprotein toxins, and other agents, will continue to be studied in the clinic. Bispecific antibodies for lymphoma are also in early clinical testing. Over the next 10 years, many of the major advances in lymphoma therapy will be antibody-based.
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PMID:[Development of monoclonal antibody therapy for malignant lymphoma]. 1190 66

We previously demonstrated that yttrium-90 (Y-90) ibritumomab tiuxetan (Zevalin) radioimmunotherapy (RIT) was safe and effective for relapsed or refractory CD20(+), B-cell, non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). We now provide long-term follow-up data in responding patients based on International Workshop Response Criteria. Complete (CR), CR unconfirmed (CRu), and partial response (PR) rates were 29%, 22%, and 22%, respectively (overall response rate 73%, 51% in CR/CRu). Mean time to progression (TTP) and duration of response (DR) in responders were 12.6 months and 11.7 months, respectively. At the maximum tolerated dose (0.4 mCi/kg [14.8 MBq/kg]), TTP and DR in complete responders (CR/CRu) were 28.3 and 27.5 months, respectively. Nine patients (24% of responding patients) had a TTP of more than 3 years. Long-term responders (> 5 years) have been identified. Ibritumomab tiuxetan produces durable responses in patients with indolent and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
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PMID:Durable responses after ibritumomab tiuxetan radioimmunotherapy for CD20+ B-cell lymphoma: long-term follow-up of a phase 1/2 study. 1501 44

In their later stages low grade lymphoma are incurable. These lymphomas being radio-sensitive, a treatment of metabolic radioimmunotherapy, using monoclonal antibodies (anti-CD20) as the carrier has been developed. The aim of this treatment is to use these antibodies to target radiation to tumor tissues while limiting toxicity to normal cells. Ibritumomab tiuxetan (Zevalin) is currently prescribed for patients with relapsed or refractory low-grade follicular lymphoma after rituximab treatment. This outpatient treatment has a high level of overall response rate including complete response and that for a long period. The side effects are essentially hematological and reversible. In the near future many more indications should become apparent and Zevalin should become an important tool in the B-cell lymphoma (low and high grade).
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PMID:[Clinical indications of radioimmunotherapy in lymphoma]. 1881 66