Front-line therapy
Betsy's entry noted the superb results of Bexxar in front-line (or first-line) therapy of advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Front-line means that the patient has not received any prior treatment for the disease.
The experimental clinical study in which I participated in early 2003 included my having received Zevalin as front-line therapy of Stage IV, follicular NHL. Now, approximately 3 1/2 years after treatment, I am free of lymphoma based upon the most sophisticated imaging and blood studies.
How long---how long, will it take for radioimmunotherapy to assume its rightful place in the treatment of lymphoma?
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