"New Treatment"
I am frankly perplexed why, after more than a decade of research study, radioimmunotherapy (RIT) is still considered by many medical oncologists to be a "new" therapy.
This is troubling to me. On the one hand, RIT is certainly not "new". But, more importantly, I fear that "new" may be used as the excuse for the patient having recurrent disease being advised to have serial chemotherapy treatments over months (or years) or to be placed on maintenance Rituxan---without the patient having the benefit of a consultation with a radiaiton oncologist or nuclear medicine physician, both having expertise in RIT.
Whenever you, the patient, are told by an oncologist that RIT is "new", I suggest that you respond, with caution, to the suggested therapy.
Mort