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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Effectiveness of novel immunotherapy and chemotherapy treatments for follicular and diffuse large B-cell lymphomas

Butsenko, Dmitriy 12 July 2017 (has links)
The efficacy of therapeutic modalities for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have been tested and improved throughout the 19th century through various series of drug trials aimed at eliminating cellular malignancies, first through chemotherapy treatment, and more recently through immunotherapy. While to an extent successful in eliminating cancerous lesions and affected cells, chemotherapy treatments have shown to influence the induction of new malignancies, through genetic mutation, as well as unwanted toxic effects of systemic poisoning. The purpose of this thesis is to compare treatment methods in terms of their biomolecular activity, precision of intended results, and possible drawbacks, as well as their application to specific populations of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnoses, including Follicular and Diffuse Large B-Cell lymphomas. In the following sections on contributing factors specific to Diffuse Large B-Cell lymphomas and Follicular lymphoma, elements of disease prognosis will be analyzed from a molecular and clinical point of view. This includes a focus on the impact of genetic mutation, the immunohistochemical evidence these changes present, as well as the variances in immune cell functionality, and finally a description of symptoms with direction to specific underlying causes. An analysis of standard of care chemotherapy, and monoclonal antibody treatments will then be provided for each occurrence. The second segment will discuss novel techniques being developed for the treatment of lymphoma including but not limited to new monoclonal antibodies, synthetic lethality modulation, inhibition of selected chemokine receptors, DNA vector immunization for production of internal host antibodies, concepts of cell mediated bispecific antibody induced destruction, and new generations of Immunomodulatory drugs. With the recent development of cost effective sequencing technology, included is a discussion of the shift towards personalized medicine treatments, targeting appropriate phenotypic specific populations for optimal results, as it relates to therapies for Diffuse Large B-Cell lymphoma and Follicular lymphoma.

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