Progress on Treatment of Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma-Review

Splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) is an uncommon indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The clinical features of SMZL are splenomegaly, lymphocytosis and cytopenia in peripheral blood. Immunopheno-typically, the neoplastic cells are typically positive for CD45, CD20, CD79a, PAX5, IgD, BCL-2. The previous common used treatment is splenectomy and chemotherapy. Nowadays, rituximab-based chemotherapy regimens has improved the curative effect dramaticlly. IFN-α with or without ribavirin can be used to treat the patients with HCV infection. Some new target agents such as Bruton tyrosine kinase, NOTCH inhibitor, CAL-101 are under clinical research. This review mainly discuss the progress in the treatment of SMZL.