Thursday, December 30, 2010

How healing Lymphoma non-Hodgkin's chemotherapy Epoch?

Treatment of lymphoma non-Hodgkin's chemotherapy Epoch

Then chemotherapy is used as a treatment to cure many types of cancer. Such treatment is non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment in which patterns of chemotherapy Epoch as etoposide, vincristine and doxorubicin are injected in patients with drugs such as intravenous (IV) bolus cyclophosphamide and oral prednisone for four days.

When treating non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) was on the verge of 74 patients their immune system does not respond to same injected drugs (schemas). But surprisingly the immune system of patients in the fatal NHL responded beautifully to this treatment.

After treatment medical tests have been carried out and the results of the trials were found. The results showed that patients who were in the fourth stage of lymphoma comprised of 77% of patients who responded to treatment of the NHL and all drugs in the schema of the era were previously administered in 71% of patients. It also found that 92% of patients were injected with at least four drug scheme at the time. Our 21 patients who have failed treatment of lymphoma non-Hodgkin, 15A responded and one of them was able to achieve a complete decline.

Patients with the deterioration of the CD-20 positive big B-cells with the NHL cells were treated with 375 mg rituximab drug first day. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment then gave 2-4 days with medications patients were injected with different proportions in the body of the patient. Only cyclophosphamide with 750 mg was fifth and 60 mg prednisone was delivered orally the patient day 1-14 of treating non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. After treatment of fifty patients aged 23-72 years of age with rituximab drug has found that primitive large B-cell lymphoma was distributed in 25 patients and large B-cell lymphoma was converted into another form of 18 of them. Thus, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment with the help of chemotherapy Epoch with rituximab drug is to be successful.

Side effects of chemotherapy Epoch treatment

We know all that Epoch chemotherapy is a treatment that is used when there is a complicated cancerous tumors. This treatment is given to patients by mixing different proportion appropriate toxic drugs for which many harmful side effects are considered. If this treatment only suitable for patients after their family history study and then find that if people are allergenic toxic drugs or not.

Sometimes it happens that the patient suffers nausea, loss of hair, depression and loss of appetite are the side effects caused by the toxic drugs are used to this treatment. Some patients are becoming resistant to drugs that are injected in the treatment of chemotherapy then while dealing with the NHL, which is a form of terrible cancer.

In such a study carried out after the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, it was observed that the toxicity of the drug caused large-scale neutropenia and gastrointestinal disorders in patients.

Friends, we now understand the importance of the era of chemotherapy in the treatment of patients with cancer. Each coin has two sides. Was therefore Epoch chemotherapy. If doctor before to go to any type of chemotherapy, self-medication because once health self-analysis is still dangerous. Always remember that health is wealth.

Wish you nice healthy.

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