While initial therapy of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is not standardized, bendamustine-rituximab (BR) is commonly used in older patients. Rituximab (R) maintenance following induction is often utilized. Thus, the open-label, randomized phase II ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group E1411 trial was designed to test two questions: 1) Does addition of bortezomib to BR induction (BVR) and/or 2) addition of lenalidomide to rituximab (LR) maintenance improve progression-free survival (PFS) in patients …