Chemotherapy alone versus chemotherapy followed by consolidative radiotherapy for limited-stage aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

CONCLUSION: Chemotherapy followed by involved field radiotherapy, as compared with chemotherapy alone, is associated with better event-free survival, but no survival benefit is observed for patients for limited-stage aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. These results needed to be confirmed by high quality trials and further studies in the East. PMID: 24268845 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cancer Radiotherapie - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Cancer Radiother Source Type: research