Update on Burkitt Lymphoma.

Hematol Oncol Clin North Am

Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Published: December 2016

Because of its rarity and high curability, progress in advancing therapeutics in Burkitt lymphoma (BL) has been difficult. Over recent years, several new mutations that cooperate with MYC have been identified, and this has paved the way for testing novel agents in the disease. One of the challenges of most standard approaches typically used is severe treatment-related toxicity that often leads to discontinuation of therapy. To that point, there has been recent success developing intermediate intensity approaches that are well tolerated in all patient groups and maintain high cure rates in a multicenter setting.

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