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Successful full-dose DeVIC therapy in a patient with advanced-stage extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma refractory to l-asparaginase

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JW, SM, YI, SH, ToS, SY, AMM, SF, WM, TaS, and SWK declare no conflicts of interests. DM has received personal fees from Takeda, Janssen, Eisai, Biomedis International, Celgene, Sanofi, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Fujifilm, Mochida, Ono, Mundipharma, and Chugai; and research finding from GlaxoSmithKline, SERVIER, Abbvie, MSD, Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Ono, and Chugai, outside the submitted work. KI has received personal fees from Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Bristol-Myers, and Shionogi, outside the submitted work.

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Watanabe, J., Makita, S., Ito, Y. et al. Successful full-dose DeVIC therapy in a patient with advanced-stage extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma refractory to l-asparaginase. Ann Hematol 97, 1739–1740 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-018-3335-4

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