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If you have been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, your doctor will discuss the best options for treating it. This depends on several factors, including:

Types of lymphoma

Stages and types of disease

symptom

Your age and health

Every lymphoma is different. There are more than 60 different types of lymphoma, each of which should be treated in a slightly different way. Every patient is different. Our specialists focus solely on caring for lymphoma patients. Your treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer will be tailored to your specific needs. One or more of the following therapies may be recommended to treat cancer or help relieve symptoms.

chemotherapy

Chemotherapy kills fast-growing cells, including cancer cells. This is the most common treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Because chemotherapy may lower certain types of blood cells, an infusion of a drug called blood cell growth factor is required. Liposomal administration is an advanced chemotherapy method, which may help to improve the efficacy of chemotherapy.

radiotherapy

Radiation therapy uses focused beams of energy to kill cancer cells. Radiation therapy can be used in the early stages of lymphoma or to relieve symptoms such as pain. Treatment is rarely the only one.

Proton therapy

Proton therapy delivers high doses of radiation directly to the tumor site with minimal damage to nearby healthy tissue. For some patients, the treatment leads to better cancer control with fewer side effects.

immunotherapy

Immunotherapy drugs help the body fight cancer, rather than attacking the cancer itself. Sometimes they have fewer side effects than other treatments.

Immunotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma may include:

Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy

Monoclonal antibodies, including rituximab

Biological therapies that develop antibodies to help the body fight cancer

Immunomodulators, such as lenalidomide, change the environment of tumor cells so that the immune system can kill cancer

Targeted therapies attack cancer cells by using small molecules to block the pathways by which cells survive and proliferate

Small molecule therapy

Stem cell transplant: If non-Hodgkin lymphoma does not respond to chemotherapy or recurs, your doctor may recommend a stem cell transplant. Stem cell transplantation is a process of replacing defective or damaged cells in patients whose normal blood cells have been affected by cancer. In addition, because chemotherapy often destroys healthy cells in the blood and bone marrow, patients undergoing certain types of chemotherapy may need a stem cell transplant.

Close watch and wait: This approach involves close monitoring of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma without aggressive treatment. Sometimes, this is appropriate for some patients with low-grade lymphoma.