Retracted article: Adjuvant radiotherapy in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in advanced stage (III/IV) improves the outcome in the rituximab era.

We, the Editor[s] and Publisher of Hematology, have retracted the following article: Avilès, A, Nambo, M-J, Calva, A, et al. Adjuvant radiotherapy in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in advanced stage (III/IV) improves the outcome in the rituximab era. Hematology.

Treatment of Early Stages Hodgkin Lymphoma During Pregnancy.

Background: To assess maternal and fetal outcome of women and newborns who received chemotherapy during pregnancy to treat Hodgkin lymphoma (HL)in early stages (IA, IIA), we performed a retrospective analysis of a cohort of 44 pregnant women with HL and early stages, diagnosed and treated between 1988 to 2013, at a tertiary reference cancer center.

Methods: We analyzed data on HL characteristics and treatment, with a particular attention to maternal and fetal complications; in children, we performed a longer follow-up to detect any anomaly in physical development, scholar performance, psychological, cardiac, neurological function, and intelligence tests.

Results: Median age was 29.

Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography to Detect Cardiac Toxicity in Children Who Received Anthracyclines During Pregnancy.

Cardiac toxicities remain a possible risk to fetuses that received anthracyclines during pregnancy. The introduction of new echocardiographic techniques will improve the detection of early cardiac damage. Thus, we began a observational study using speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) in children who had received anthracyclines during pregnancy, including the first trimester.

Nasal NK/T-Cell Lymphoma. A Comparative Analysis of a Mexican Population with the Other Populations of Latin-America.

Nasal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (nasal NKTCL), is a rare presentation of extranodal lymphoma in North-America and Europe, but in some countries, as China and Korea, nasal NKTCL occurred in 20 to 46 % of T-cell lymphomas. Some studies, analyzing the incidence in Latin-America, observed some differences between the various populations. However, this comparison included Argentina and Chile, Peru, and other Latin-America but not the Mexico.

Rituximab in the treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma primary of the lung.

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma primary of lung (DLBCL-PL) is a rare presentation of extranodal lymphoma, in most cases chemotherapy-based anthracyclines: CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) has been the treatment, with excellent outcome. The addition of rituximab to CHOP (R-CHOP) has been considered the gold standard in the treatment of nodal DLBCL. Thus, we assess in a large number of cases of DLBCL-PL whether the use of R-CHOP could improve survival in this setting of patients.

The role of genotype in 104 cases of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma primary of breast.

Objectives: To analyze the role of genotype in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma primary of breast (DLBCL-PB) treated with chemotherapy or immunochemotherapy.

Methods: We carried out a retrospective analysis in 104 patients with DLBCL-PB who were treated with CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) or immunochemotherapy: R-CHOP (adding rituximab) and also carried out an analysis of genotype, studied with immunohistochemistry, as a prognostic factor.

Results: Seventy-seven percent of patients showed the non-GCB (germinal center B) genotype.

Long-term evaluation of cardiac function in children who received anthracyclines during pregnancy.

Background: The use of anthracyclines in patients with cancer has been associated with the presence, even when standard doses were employed, of cardiac toxicity, most frequently after 5 years of therapy. Treatment of cancer during pregnancy remains a dilemma because cytotoxic therapy has been associated with the presence of severe side-effects. The outcome of children that received antracyclines during pregnancy, including during the first trimester, remain unknown because long-term follow-up is not available.

Biological modifiers as cytoreductive therapy before stem cell transplant in previously untreated patients with multiple myeloma.

Background: High dose chemotherapy with supporting autologous stem cell transplantation is now considered the treatment of choice in patients with multiple myeloma <65 years old. The best regimen appears to be VAD (vincristine, doxorubicin and dexamethasone), but acute and late toxicity can limit the use of this combination. The use of biological modifiers has not been considered in this situation.