No hope for other treatment?
I have read a blog reader's comment that was so upsetting to me. A physician apparently told a non-hodgkin's lymphoma patient that there was "no hope for other treatment" when the patient never was considered for radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
This is not an isolated example; indeed, I have heard many similar stories. I cannot fathom why medical oncologists, seemingly, do not advise lymphoma patients of this therapy.
Betsy and I had advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. My cancer cells were lodged in my bone and were swimming in my blood stream. Now, 4 1/2 years after RIT, the most sophisticated tests do not show a hint of lymphoma.
And yet, patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma are told of "no hope for other treatment".
We, the patients, must lift our voices and cry out, for it is our lives that are at stake.
Dear fellow patients---insist upon a consultation with a radiation oncologist or nuclear medicine physician.
Mort