Treatment
- Managed under "Aggressive Lymphoma" guidelines.
- CHOP is first line of treatment, CHOP-Rituxan in the unlikely scenario that CD20 is positive, given that CD20 is a B-cell marker.
- Radiation therapy as per institutional preference (based on ECOG, SWOG, and GELA trials), but usually added for bulky disease
- Localized primary cutaneous ALCL
- Radiation therapy alone
- Surgical excision alone
- Surgically excision with adjuvant radiation.
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