HCT Consolidation Improves Survival in Younger MCL Patients

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This video highlights results of a retrospective review that examined survival and other outcomes in younger mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) patients who received consolidation with autologous hematopoietic cell transplant during first remission.

In this video, Brian T. Hill, MD, PhD, of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, discusses results of a retrospective review that examined survival and other outcomes in younger mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) patients who received consolidation with autologous hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) during first remission.

Results of the study (abstract 341) were presented last week at the 2017 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, held December 9–12 in Atlanta.

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