Maintenance therapy
I write to offer a small comment to Betsy's interesting and informative entry on the subject of maintenance therapy.
Personally, I feel that each patient should rely on his or her "creed" (basic values) upon which to determine how one should attack a malignant disease. My creed told me to attack non-Hodgkin's lymphoma as early and as hard as possible. Therefore, I opted for an experimental therapy using radioimmunotherapy as first-line treatment of NHL.
Other persons may feel entirely comfortable accepting ongoing, serial medicinal therapy.
This discussion emphasizes the fact that medical care is much more than simply a medication. Personal feelings should not go unheeded in determing one's therapy.
Mort