Consolidation. Never thought the word could be sexy but as a concept it's huge in oncology right now. The concept is this: after the patient is finished with initial chemo they move on to chemo "lite" to consolidate the gains they made with initial treatment. The vexing problem of lymphoma and a few other cancers is this: we can usually induce a remission but the disease often comes back and is much harder to treat when it does. So the strategy is becoming: find a treatment that will prolong the remission if not make it permanent.