Brentuximab Vedotin with Chemotherapy for Stage III or IV Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Joseph M Connors¹, Wojciech Jurczak¹, David J Straus¹+27

• ¹From the University of British Columbia and the Department of Medical Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency Centre for Lymphoid Cancer, Vancouver, Canada (J.M.C., K.J.S.); the Department of Hematology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow (W.J.), the Department of Hematology, Institute of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Warsaw (E.L.-M.), the Department of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Center of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw (E.L.-M.), the Department of Experimental Hematology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz (P.S.), and the Department of Lymphoid Malignancy, the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Institute and Oncology Center, Warsaw (J.W.) - all in Poland; Lymphoma Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York (D.J.S., A.Y.); the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (S.M.A.); the Division of Hematology and Oncology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea (W.S.K.); Research Innovation and Statistics, Antoine-Lacassagne Cancer Center, Nice, France (A.G.); Petrov Research Institute of Oncology, St. Petersburg, Russia (S.A.); the Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Debrecen (Á.I.), and the Department of Hematology, National Institute of Oncology, Budapest (A.R.) - both in Hungary; the Department of Advanced Biomedical Science, Federico II University Hospital, Naples (M.P.), and the Institute of Hematology Seràgnoli, University of Bologna, Bologna (P.L.Z.) - both in Italy; the Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (Y.O.); John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ (T.F.); the Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis (N.L.B.); the Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA (R.C.); the Department of Hematology-Oncology, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center, Detroit (R.R.); Gastrointestinal and Lymphoma Unit, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton (D.C.), and the Department of Medical Oncology, University of Manchester and the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester (J.R.) - both in the United Kingdom; the Department of Clinical Development, Seattle Genetics, Bothell, WA (N.C.J., E.S.); and Oncology Clinical Research (J.S., H.A.J., D.H.) and Global Biostatistics (R.L.), Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA.