Research for Resistance Factors in the Treatment of Lymphoid Hemopathy

In order to promote translational research on the molecular pathways involved in resistance to treatments for mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), the clinical haematology department of the University Hospital Center (CHU) of Nantes has established, since 2016, the REFRACT-LyMa (Research on Factors of Resistance to Chemotherapies and Innovative Therapies in Mantle Cell Lymphoma) cohort-biocollection of blood and bone marrow samples from patients with MCL. Thanks to the close collaborations with team 11 of the Integrated Cancer Research and Immunology Center Nantes Angers (CRCI²NA), which specializes in studying the molecular pathways involved in resistance to treatments for hematological cancers, we wish to broaden the scope of research to other B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (B-NHL). That is why today the REFRACT-LyMa cohort-biocollection aims to expand to malignant hematopathies involving mature B cells (Research on Factors of Resistance to Chemotherapies and Innovative Therapies in Mature B-Cell Lymphoid Hemopathies).