Saturday, May 15, 2010

How do you treat non-Hodgkin's natural killer/t-cell lymphoma?

This lymphoma is stage 4 already, having first appeared around the tonsillar area and nasal cavities, and now having spread to the lungs.

How do you treat non-Hodgkin's natural killer/t-cell lymphoma?
The site below will give you some good information.
Reply:there r chemo treatments out there that work great. i wish u the best of luck
Reply:There are some new T-cell treatments that are showing promise. They include: Campath-1H, a monoclonal antibody (it might prove as effective as Rituximab was for follicular lymphoma); and denileukin (a combination of a biological therapy called IL-2 and a poison called diptheria toxin. The idea is that the IL-2 finds the cancer cells and the diptheria poison kills them.)





Standard chemotherapy (CHOP) is also used, as well as bone marrow transplants.





You should see a lymphoma specialist (hematologist) for advice, rather than a general oncologist.


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