“…But distinct clinical scenarios, such as primary refractory, early or late relapse, nodal or extranodal relapse, autoHCT eligible or not, and relapse post-autoHCT, may variably apply to a given patient over time, each probably with unique outcomes. Clinical trials with new agents targeting relapsed or refractory DLBCL often include only subsets of this population and the ability to judge the efficacy of these agents is limited by unknown historical outcomes of the enrolled subset (Witzig et al, 2011a,b;Salles et al, 2013;Morschhauser et al, 2014;Christian et al, 2015;Gerecitano et al, 2015;Jacobsen et al, 2015;Kochenderfer et al, 2015;Locke et al, 2015;Maddocks et al, 2015;Moskowitz et al, 2015;Ribrag et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2015;Coiffier et al, 2016;Viardot et al, 2016;Walter et al, 2016). Populationbased studies attempting to define these outcomes to date are limited by lack of inclusivity, treatment and outcome detail, or adequate follow-up (Danese et al, 2016).…”