[Primary skin lymphomas: Current therapy].

Ann Dermatol Venereol

Unité Inserm U1058, département de dermatologie, université Montpellier, hôpital Saint-Éloi, 80, avenue Augustin-Fliche, 34295 Montpellier cedex 5, France. Electronic address:

Published: February 2019

Therapeutic progress in primary cutaneous lymphomas continues to be largely dominated by the T-cell lymphomas, towards which the great majority of recent therapeutic innovations have been directed. The latter include local treatments consisting either of relatively classical but "revamped" approaches involving different pharmaceutical forms (example: chlormethine gel) or else lower but seemingly equally effective dosages (electron therapy), or of more innovative approaches (example: UVA-1, dynamic phototherapy, imiquimod, resimiquimod). However, significant progress has been made chiefly in terms of systemic treatments with the emergence of "targeted" drugs that directly and specifically target tumour cells (monoclonal antibodies directed against CD30, CCR4 or CD158k) and the further development of "small" molecules such as histone deacetylase inhibitors and new cytostatics. Immunotherapies, which have proven so effective in other areas of oncodermatology, are also of great interest, while allogeneic haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation has clearly shown its superiority over autologous transplantation and now constitutes a significant component of the therapeutic arsenal in advanced disease. While the innovations in terms of B-cell lymphomas are certainly less significant, mention must also be made of the value of rituximab combined with polychemotherapy (CHOP) and of lenalidomide (as second-line therapy) in primary cutaneous diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, leg type, along with the development of localized (very) low-dose radiotherapy in unilesional or paucilesional indolent forms.

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