JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Evaluating the incidence and predictors of chronic opioid use in early survivorship for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Abstract Background Opioid exposure during cancer treatment is common and leads to new persistent opioid use (NPOU) in a subset of patients. There are limited data on the incidence and predictors of NPOU among patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Methods We conducted a population-based cohort study including patients with DLBCL ≥18 years old from Ontario, Canada who received first-line rituximab-based chemoimmunotherapy from 2014-2021 and survived >365 days after treatment. We defined opioid exposur …