Non-traditional treatment of lymphoma
I have read comments from blog readers relating to "non-conventional" treatment of lymphoma.
Non-conventional treatment, in my thinking, is two-fold. First is complementary or alternative treatment which relates to practices or products not normally considered to be conventional medicine. This may include special diets, herbal supplements and non-herbal supplements. Personally, I know nothing of this practice in treatment of lymphoma.
Second is what I would call non-traditional treatment. This, to me, is different from alternative therapy. Non-traditional may relate to medications in the process of clinical investigation. As an example, radioimmunotherapy may have been considered "non-traditional" until such point as clinical trials have shown its effectiveness. (I was a patient in one such trial.)
To me, radioimmunotherapy is no longer non-traditional, but now is to be considered an important class of medication in treatment of several lymphomas.
Mort