The "pleasure" of radioimmunotherapy
Betsy has written, with her passionate skill, of her rigors while receiving chemotherapy for her advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Finally, she received radioimmunotherapy (RIT described as "fast and easy".
I think back of my Zevalin RIT for stage IV non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). No nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting. In fact, I did not lose a single day of work save the days that I went for follow-up visits with my radiation oncologist. And best of all---a superb response with no evidence of disease 4 years after treatment.
I remind the blog readers that I received Zevalin as front-line (first-line) therapy. For those patients who have advanced NHL and have not received any earlier treatment, speak with an expert in RIT---a radiation oncologist or nuclear medicine physician---about the efficacy of RIT in "off-label" use.
Mort