Transplant in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

Abstract

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is the most common type of aggressive lymphoma. Patients that don’t respond to first-line therapy have a poor prognosis. Bone marrow transplant represents an effective and established salvage treatment for those patients, with curative potential. Autologous  transplant uses the patient stem cell for rescue after high-dose myeloablative chemotherapy, while allogenic transplant relies on a different stem cell for a graft-versus-lymphoma effect. With distinct toxicity and capacity to induce remission, those therapies have great value in the management of patients with relapsed and refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.