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Suggest Treatment For Stage 4 Non Hodgkin S Lymphoma
My brother is 59. has been diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma with blood disorder. He also has something like green mucas filling his lungs which they are draining weekly. He started blood transfusions 4 weeks ago, he has one every 2 weeks. they also started kemo. they gave him a triple dose before he left the hospital & he has it every 3 weeks. I know every case is different, but what can you tell me about his outlook?
Mon, 5 Oct 2015
Non hodgkin lymphoma are of many types, but as you said he had blood dysfunction may be due to bone marrow involvement, chemo is the choice for symtomatic and advamced stage NHL . If perfomence statua is good then he can tolerate chemo very well along with immunothetapy. After chemo ve have many options and many drugs are there in pipeline for NHL.
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