Complete, long-term remission of refractory idiopathic cold haemagglutinin disease after mabthera

Long-term complete remission with belinostat in a patient with chemotherapy refractory peripheral t-cell lymphoma

Peripheral T/NK-cell lymphomas (PTCL) are rare malignancies with a poor prognosis. Due to the lack of randomised studies, standard therapy has not been established. First-line treatment with anthracycline-based polychemotherapy followed by consolidation with high-dose therapy and autologous stem cell transplant in responding patients has demonstrated good feasibility with low toxicity in prospe...

Long-term remission after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for refractory cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

BACKGROUND Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has proved to be an effective therapeutic option in various hematologic neoplastic disorders. Because patients with advanced cutaneous T-cell lymphoma have a poor prognosis, with minimal possibilities of sustained remission, we studied the therapeutic potential of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. OBSERVATIONS Three young pa...

Long term complete remission in primary plasma cell leukemia.

A 76-year-old female was diagnosed as having primary plasma cell leukemia (PCL), based on abundant atypical plasma cells in the circulation and bone marrow, monoclonal kappa light chain in the serum and urine, the immunophenotype of the plasma cells and the lack of preceding multiple myeloma. The patient was treated with melphalan and prednisolone (MP), and complete remission (CR) was achieved;...

Long-term outcomes of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma who achieved complete remission after sorafenib therapy

BACKGROUND/AIMS Sorafenib is currently the sole molecular targeted agent that improves overall survival in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Despite the efficacy of sorafenib, the response rate varies in patients with advanced HCC. We retrospectively analyzed a series of Korean patients with advanced HCC with complete remission (CR) after sorafenib therapy. METHODS In total, 523 patien...

Complete remission in idiopathic membranous glomerulonephritis.