Anita Kumar, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Short Hills, NJ, discusses monitoring minimal residual disease (MRD) to detect molecular relapse in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). 400 patients treated with R-CHOP were assessed every three months, with a computerized tomography (CT) scan every six months for two years. MRD assays failed to accurately detect molecular relapse in patients, with false positives reported in a subset of patients. However, cases of asymptomatic relapse were able to be identified with CT imaging. This interview took place at the 63rd ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition congress in Atlanta, GA.

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