IDARAM
R-IDARAM comprised of Rituximab 375 mg/m2 (day 1), idarubicin 10 mg/m2(day 2 and 3); dexamethasone 100 mg/m2 (12 h.infusion in day 2, 3 and 4); cytarabine 1 g/m2 (1 h. infusion in day 2 and 3); methotrexate 2 g/m2 (6 h. infusion in day 4 with folinic acid rescue). Intrathecal Immunochemotherapy comprised of Rituximab 10mg, MTX 15mg, dexamethasone 5mg and Ara-c 50mg once a week.
Results indicate that R-IDARAM regimen with intrathecal immunochemotherapy is generally well tolerated and produces a high complete response rate and survival rate in Primary central nervous system lymphoma 1).
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Qian L, Zhou C, Shen J, Cen J, Yin W. Treatment of newly diagnosed B-cell
origin primary CNS lymphoma with systemic R-IDARAM chemotherapy and intrathecal
immunochemotherapy. Oncotarget. 2016 Mar 25. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.8370. [Epub
ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27029056.