I have had no hodgkins lymphoma for over 9 months and receive chemotherapy every three weeks weeks.
So true Pat…Such good words of advice which I will take on board. Xxx
June 2019 i was diagnosed with primary cns lymphoma.
This year in march i had an ovary removed. They found diffuse large b cell lymphoma. My oncologist wants to put me on the r-CHOP regimen with stem cell transplant to follow as maintainance therapy.
She’s in England and would like to try alternative therapies
I was diagnosed with T-Cell and have been through a lot. 6 rounds of chemo put me in remission and a few months of being in remission, I went through a stem cell transplant with 11 more rounds of… read more
Ceil, I was diagnosed with WM in the fall of 2018. My initial treatment was 6 infusions of Rituximab and Bendamustine. This shrunk my tumor considerably and brought my blood numbers back into line. In… read more
Non Hodgkinslymphoma
I was diagnosed age 79 with NHL slow growing, in 2022. Oncologist said he has had patients live 20 years with this type. I asked if one can have this with no symptoms pre diagnosis (unless you can… read more
T- Cells in node sampling show 84%T-cells:7.2:1 CD-4 /CD-8 Ratio 10.6 % of cells are atypical CD-5 ( bright)/CD-4 positive T-cells lacking CD-3/CD-8/CD/10/CD-16/CD56.
I don’t know yet. But after my recent investigation it was very fast that they wanted to see me again. With my other cancer (brain tumour) I get to see my oncologist on the same day after the MRI. I… read more
I was just diagnosed a week ago and don't meet with my doctor to discuss next steps until after the new year. He mentioned possibly doing "watch and wait" method and I've read a lot that backs that up, which really surprises me. Why would you wait until things got worse to pursue any type of treatment?
For some types of blood cancer there's no evidence that early treatment, when you have no symptoms, improves outcomes. Instead, doctors recommend saving treatment for later, when it will have the best… read more