Regulatory approval

Published by the Health Service Executive. Approved

The Republic of Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has approved rituximab (375 mg/m^2) (56 day) for reimbursement as a treatment option for the maintenance treatment of previously untreated follicular CD20 positive, B-cell Non Hodgkin Lymphoma patients responding to induction therapy.

This is written in the approval document as:

Maintenance therapy for the treatment of previously untreated follicular CD20 positive, B-cell Non Hodgkin Lymphoma patients responding to induction therapy.

Reimbursement

Hospital

Citation

RiTUXimab 375 mg/m2 Maintenance Therapy- 56 day, 2021, version number 2, NCCP National SACT Regimen, NCCP, viewed 26/03/2026, https://healthservice.hse.ie/documents/6643/543_v2_riTUXimab_375_mgm2_Therapy_56_days.pdf

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Organizations	Biomarkers	Cancer types	Therapies
HSE (1)	CD20 +	Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma	Rituximab
HSE (1)	CD20 +	Follicular Lymphoma	Rituximab

Contributions

Date	Contributor	Description
2024-01-16	Van Allen lab	Adding HSE approvals for reimbursement to database
2019-02-05	Health Service Executive	Indication approved for reimbursement.