Footnotes

• Handling editor Josef S Smolen

• Contributors All authors were involved with the design, writing, analysis and collection of data.

• Funding DJW research was supported by Immunomedics, Inc. DJW and DMG were employed at Immunomedics, Inc., when this study was conducted and owned stock in the company. DMG was founder and former Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer, and the inventor or co-inventor on several patents covering milatuzumab.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.