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Chemotherapy with abvd regimen with or without radiotherapy is considered standard treatment in hodgkin lymphoma. Elderly patients may have difficulty tolerating abvd chemotherapy. In this situation the options apart from chemotherapy includes:
1. If the disease is in early stages, it can be treated with radiotherapy only for those patients who is unable to tolerate chemotherapy. 2. If the subtype of hodgkin lymphoma is nlphl, it can be treated with targeted therapy with rituximab.
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1. If the disease is in early stages, it can be treated with radiotherapy only for those patients who is unable to tolerate chemotherapy. 2. If the subtype of hodgkin lymphoma is nlphl, it can be treated with targeted therapy with rituximab.
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Asked for Male, 40 years old from Noida
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Asked for male, 33 years old from Patna
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Diagnosis is by finding Hodgkin's cells such as multinucleated Reed–Sternberg cells (RS cells) in lymph nodes. Hodgkin lymphoma may be treated with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and stem cell transplant. The choice of treatment often depends on how advanced the cancer, In early disease a cure is often possible.
Asked for male, 23 years old from Bangalore
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Thats the best treatment available for NHL, if its expensive for you then you can omit Rituximab and take only CHOP regimen. But the best results are with R-CHOP. And after Six cycle chemotherapy, if any residual is there then only she will need 20 days of radiotherapy.
Asked for male, 26 years old from Mumbai
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Yes, it is related to that.
You can consult me at Lybrate for homeopathic treatment.
It can be better effective than allopathic in lymphoma.
You can consult me at Lybrate for homeopathic treatment.
It can be better effective than allopathic in lymphoma.
Asked for female, 31 years old from Kurnool
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Asked for Male, 40 years old from Noida
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You may have a glossitis due to radiation and other treatment and take multivitamins and shoe the oncology dept
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