Responses to questions
Comments from many blog visitors often include very specific medical questions. These questions are invariably interesting and important.
My responses are from a patient viewpoint and, certainly, are not to be regarded as medical advice from a lymphoma expert.
I have always been told that non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is not infectious or contagious.
I do not know whether a radioimmunotherapy agent can be given more than one time to a patient. This is an important question and should be directed to the nuclear medicine physician or radiation oncologist.
One blog visitor enquired about radioimmunotherapy for mantle cell lymphoma. I have just heard, informally, that a clinical trial specifically related to this issue has begun. I suggest that interested readers go to the national cancer insitute website