Brentuximab vedotin demonstrates an objective response in a patient with refractory CD30+ primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma
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We present a patient with PMBL who had increased gene copy numbers of MYC and BCL-2 along with increased protein expression of BCL-2 (c-Myc expression was about 15%-20% by immunostain)….The lymphoma, however, responded to brentuximab vedotin, a CD30-directed chemoimmunoconjugate.