Joseph M Connors, Wojciech Jurczak, David J Straus, Stephen M Ansell, Won S Kim, Andrea Gallamini, Anas Younes, Sergey Alekseev, Árpád Illés, Marco Picardi, Ewa Lech-Maranda, Yasuhiro Oki, Tatyana Feldman, Piotr Smolewski, Kerry J Savage, Nancy L Bartlett, Jan Walewski, Robert Chen, Radhakrishnan Ramchandren, Pier L Zinzani, David Cunningham, Andras Rosta, Neil C Josephson, Eric Song, Jessica Sachs, Rachael Liu, Hina A Jolin, Dirk Huebner, John Radford
BACKGROUND: Brentuximab vedotin is an anti-CD30 antibody-drug conjugate that has been approved for relapsed and refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma. METHODS: We conducted an open-label, multicenter, randomized phase 3 trial involving patients with previously untreated stage III or IV classic Hodgkin's lymphoma, in which 664 were assigned to receive brentuximab vedotin, doxorubicin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (A+AVD) and 670 were assigned to receive doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine (ABVD)...
January 25, 2018: New England Journal of Medicine