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Lakshmi Nayak, MD, on Primary CNS Lymphoma: The Search for Optimal First-Line Treatment

ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program

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Lakshmi Nayak, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, reviews two key abstracts on newly diagnosed primary central nervous system lymphoma and treatment with whole-brain radiotherapy, methotrexate, temozolomide, rituximab, procarbazine, vincristine, and cytarabine (Abstracts 2500 and 2501).



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