Hello dear community. My name is Andy, and my wife has Hodgkin Lymphoma. She received 4 rounds of ABVD and the subsequential PET CT came back positive. There is some sort of Deauville score which was at level 4 - 'partial response to treatment'. Honestly, this totally devastated her, not only with the fact itself but also with thoughts that she might have been reducing chemo effect with a wrong diet. She is vegetarian(eggs and milk are OK) and she've found some info that meat should be eaten while receiving her treatment. I'm trying to find anything regarding diets during chemotherapy but all I managed to dig up was "avoid coffee, turmeric and bananas". She has started her BEACOPPesc 5 days ago and fears what she eats may reduce this treatment's effect as well.
Any suggestion on this?
Hi and welcome to this corner of the Community. I am MikeThehighlander and ai help out around our blood cancer groups.
Sorry to hear your wife has had a partial response to her treatment, although not uncommon, still frustrating but let’s look for her next treatment to do the job.
I have been on my rare NHL journey for over 21 years now and can honestly say I have never heard of diet effecting the effectiveness of chemo. But I am not medically trained so you could post your question on our Ask an Expert section, but do allow two working days for replies from our expert team.
The main thing that is always said is follow a good balanced diet but think Pregnant Mum and proton being imortant t to keep energy levels up.
Her partial response is just bad luck I would say.
Lets look for her new treatment to do its thing.
Always around to help.
