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Search Results for: Lymphoma
Childhood Lymphoma- Long-Term Misery
Childhood Lymphoma as well as other pediatric blood cancers, are curable. However, the cure comes at a price of a lifetime of long-term and late stage side effects. I am a long-term survivor of a blood
Continue readingFollicular Lymphoma: Watch and Wait for Better Therapies?
“Watching and waiting is still reasonable for patients with follicular lymphoma of all varieties because, while we are watching and waiting, clinical trials are ongoing, developing newer and better
Continue readingMantle Cell Lymphoma- Lenalidomide, Rituxan plus Integrative Therapies
“Lenalidomide (Revlimid) plus rituximab (Rituxan) is a feasible combination that is also safe and active, as initial and maintenance therapy for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)” The
Continue readingLymphoma-“Risk of Secondary Cancer”
“…but the investigators wrote that this study confirmed the continual risk of secondary cancer beyond 25 years after a diagnosis of Hodgkin lymphoma…” The study isn’t talking
Continue readingDiagnosed w’ Non-hodgkin lymphoma followed by Multiple Myeloma
“It is possible that cytotoxic treatment per se may promote transformation10)”. Suffice to say that you have been through the blood cancer wringer. And lived to talk about it. I am impressed. Hi
Continue readingLymphoma-Herbs and Antioxidant Supplementation as Therapy
“Curcumin is the pigment of turmeric, a well-known chemopreventive agent that has been shown to suppress the proliferation of a wide variety of tumor cells, including lymphoma…” Years
Continue readinglinvoseltamab for Myeloma
linvoseltamab for Myeloma is yet another possible therapy for relapsed/refractory MM patients. Prospective MM patients must remember, however, that this new therapy comes with serious risks. I am a long-term
Continue readingDoxorubicin Side Effects
Doxorubicin side effects illustrate how chemotherapy is a double-edged sword. Dox kills cancer wonderfully but can wreak havoc on the cancer patient. If your oncologist has prescribed dox. by itself or
Continue readingMyeloma Tumor Chemosensitivity Testing
Myeloma tumor chemosensitivity testing sounds like an oxymoron. Myeloma is a blood cancer- no such thing as a myeloma “tumor.” However, it seems like chemosensitivity testing should be the
Continue readingMyeloma Clinical Trials- Exclusion Criteria
What is the purpose of myeloma clinical trials? Exclusion criteria virtually guarantees that the results do not mirror real world experience. And therefore newly diagnosed MM patients will learn little
Continue readingCardiotoxicity Prevention
Cardiotoxicity prevention is particularly important to me. I am a long-term cancer survivor who developed chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy and chronic atrial fibrillation in late 2010- fully 15 years
Continue readingCAR-T therapy is EXPENSIVE!!!
CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell) therapy holds a great deal of promise for the treatment of multiple myeloma. Unfortunately, CAR-T therapy is expensive. This is another post in PeopleBeatingCancer’s
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