If you are still PET positive after 8 Thank you cycles of nivolumab, you will be Thank you for reading his information. asked to have an additional lymph node biopsy, but this is optional. If you take part, you will help us to understand more about this disease and its If you have questions treatment. We hope you find this information sheet This may help future people with Hodgkin helpful. We appreciate it may not answer lymphoma. all of your questions, so please do not hesitate to contact us on the telephone numbers given at the end of this Patient Information Sheet if you would like to discuss any aspect of the study further. scan. If the PET-CT scan has become Why are we doing this study? negative (meaning that the disease has been effectively treated), patients are This trial is for patients with Hodgkin usually offered a transplant using their lymphoma which has either come back own stem cells straight away or after a after (relapsed) initial successful further cycle of the same chemotherapy. treatment, or has not responded well enough to initial treatment. Having a negative PET-CT scan before having a stem cell transplant is important Currently, standard treatment is a because previous research has that combination of chemotherapy drugs the chance of cure after transplant is much (called line’ salvage treatment), ‘first greater if the PET-CT scan beforehand is followed by an assessment with a PET-CT
If you are still PET positive after 8 cycles of nivolumab, you will be asked to have an additional lymph node biopsy, but this is optional. If you have questions We hope you find this information sheet helpful. We appreciate it may not answer all of your questions, so please do not hesitate to contact us on the telephone numbers given at the end of this Patient Information Sheet if you would like to discuss any aspect of the study further. Thank you Thank you for reading his information. If you take part, you will help us to understand more about this disease and its treatment. This may help future people with Hodgkin lymphoma. Why are we doing this study? This is for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma which has either come back after (relapsed) initial successful treatment, or has not responded well enough to initial treatment. Currently, standard treatment is a combination of chemotherapy drugs (called ‘first line’ salvage treatment), followed by an assessment with a PET-CT scan. If the PET-CT scan has become negative (meaning that the disease has been effectively treated), patients are usually offered a transplant using their own stem cells straight away or after a further cycle of the same chemotherapy. Having a negative PET-CT scan before having a stem cell transplant is important because previous research has that the chance of cure after transplant is much greater if the PET-CT scan beforehand is trial
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