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Hi has anyone any advice to share on the course of intrathecal methotrexate given at the end of R-chop treatment please? After my husband finishes his 6 courses of R-chop we were told he’d have 2 separate hospital stays of 4/5 days for this. So...
Hi everyone, I have joined this group for help and advice for my mother who was recently diagnosed with stage 4 non Hodgkin b cell, Sorry if not got that quite right. She has started chemo about 8 days ago and seems to be responding well to it. Only real...
I’ve recently been diagnosed with Stage 4 extra nodal marginal low grade non Hodgkin’s lymphoma following a misdiagnosis of metastatic breast cancer (I had breast cancer in 2017 which was successfully treated with surgery, radiotherapy and Tamoxifen)...
Last year I had bowel cancer and op and chemo but that's not why I am here. My daughter has recently been diagnosed with non hodgkins Lymphoma - Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL). It's not my story to tell. I can only support her and her family. She...
I had my last R-Chop session in May, unfortunately it didn’t work, but I’m still having back pain, nothing I do helps. Is this normal?
Hi all new to this! Partner diagnosed with high grade tcell lymphoma- unfortunately it seems its a very rare type and we still awaiting plan of treatment etc biopsy been tested by several departments at different hospitals! Feels like they forgotten...
Hi, I was originally diagnosed with Lymphoma, then Testicular Cancer now back to Lymphoma with a High Grade DLBCL CD 5 Positive and the Tumour is a Double Expressor. This was all identified following the Histopathology of my right testicle which was removed...
Good afternoon to everyone. Got my PET Scan report, seems there is another 28mm mass somewhere else which wasn’t picked up in the November 2023 scan. Of course no biopsy has been done on this one. Does seem to be stable though. The main mass seems to...
Hi, I'm new to the forum. I was diagnosed with stage 3 B low grade B cell lymphoma with extensive tumour burden in May this year. I completed 5 of the 6 chemotherapy/immunotherapy sessions but didn't complete the 6th because I developed cellulitis on...
I was diagnosed with High grade B-cell NHI, in January, after having 6 rounds of chemo, it hasn’t helped. Because of my age, I’m 80, they don’t recommend anymore chemo. Where do I go from here ?
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