Malignant Lymphona

[Lou]

My brother was recently misdiagnosed with crohn's disease and now has
malignant lymphona. People (both medical and lay) are providing me
information but it varies so significantly I don't know what to
believe. Is my brother going to die?

[John A. Mooney]

Lou, in all honesty their crystal balls are just as cloudy as yours with
respect to the amount of time your brother has left.

Act accordingly.

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[alf.msg]

Lou:

What sort of lymphoma? Is it non-Hodgkin's? Hodgkin's?

In any event, there is a *lot* of information about both, but having an
exact diagnosis is very important -- there are 39 different types of
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and treatment and prognosis differs markedly
depending on which type he has.

Try to get info from the following sites:

www.nci.nih.gov (nat'l cancer institute's site)
www.acor.org (association of cancer online research)
www.wizard.com/NHL (capitalization is important; an *excellent* site
affiliated with the NHL email listserv)
www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mike/lymphoma.html (an excellent site)

You can also subscribe to the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma listserv, which is
comprised of patients, caregivers and family members dealing with lymphoma.
To subscribe, send a message to nhl-su...@jubjub.wizard.com, with
"subscribe" in the subject line.

Best of luck.

--
Adam Frank
husband of Marnie
dx 1/99 diffuse large B-cell intermediate stage IIB
COD-BLAM x3, CHOP x2

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[Kelly Hunter]

I can tell you that I was diagnosed w/ Lymphoma and the oncologist told
me that this certain cancer is curable. I'm off chemo and I feel great!!
Do some research, here is a site you may want your brother to see.

http://eatseeds.com

[Don Sterner]

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:23:25 GMT, l...@purelogic.com (Lou) wrote:

>My brother was recently misdiagnosed with crohn's disease and now has
>malignant lymphona. People (both medical and lay) are providing me
>information but it varies so significantly I don't know what to
>believe. Is my brother going to die?

Lymphoma is a collection of a large number of cancer types. Some
are very indolent, some are extremely agressive. All are
treatable to one degree or another. No question, all lymphomas
can kill, but there are long-term survivors of most types after
receiving appropriate treatments. Occasionally a patient who
seemed cured will have a recurrence of lymphoma. Even then,
treatments will frequently provide another remission or long-term
"cure".

[alf.msg]

oops....sorry, the correct address is nhl-r...@jubjub.wizard.com, with

"subscribe" in the subject line.

Adam Frank

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