Follicular Lymphoma Prognosis What Can You Expect

It is important to cure the cancer, because it can spread, regardless of the slow advancement. The follicular lymphoma prognosis depends on whether or not you take the proper measures to eliminate it. If left untreated, the cancer can have devastating effects on the body.

Treatment options like chemotherapy rarely work here and if they do – it’s usually something else that is having the effect. The term ‘spontaneous remission’ is often used when it comes to cancer. That’s because people did something that promoted the cancer remission, but they are not aware what exactly it was. u Currently, the follicular lymphoma prognosis is done by measuring LDH and hemoglobin in the blood. That is not an accurate way to predict anything, but most doctors still stick to this ‘routine’ procedure. Lymphoma cancer is a complex disease and accurate prognosis can never be given. That’s why it is important to treat the lymphoma as soon as you know you have it, and not hope for some miracle.

There is only one way to expect a good prognosis and that is to cure the cancer. There are several approaches, which can successfully achieve that. However, the only way to permanently eliminate all traces of the cancer is to use your own body. Most treatment options try to use the opposite – they work against the body and try to ‘attack’ the cancer cells by using poison or surgery. That rarely works and is not an effective approach when it comes to follicular lymphoma. The survival rate of lymphoma patients is give in percentages, i.e what percentage of patients are likely to survive more than ten years. Needles to say, that is not a very useful way to predict things, as everyone is different. There is a lot of very controversial information in this field, and people need to educate themselves, rather than listen blindly to other people’s opinions.

The survival rate of lymphoma patients is give in percentages, i.e what percentage of patients are likely to survive more than ten years. Needles to say, that is not a very useful way to predict things, as everyone is different. There is a lot of very controversial information in this field, and people need to educate themselves, rather than listen blindly to other people’s opinions.

 

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what are some treatment options for lymphoma in elderly patients?

Answer
Depending on the age and type of lymphoma, one option is no treatment. (There are some indolent — slow growing — types of lymphoma that take 20 years to cause problems, so many people over seventy choose to let the disease progress slowly.) I’m guessing, though, that this is probably not that kind.

This is a question best answered by the patient and an oncologist. Let me strongly suggest, however, that the oncologist be one specializing in lymphoma and related diseases (look for a “hematologist”, perhaps) instead of just a general oncologist. Go to a research center if possible. (The local oncologist can do the treatment that the specialist recommends.)

The best new treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is rituximab. It directly targets the cells that get lymphoma, but not the others. It is now available to the general public. Often it is used in conjuction with other chemotherapy.

I got it on a clinical trial 5 years ago, and I’ve been cancer free ever since.