Is there anybody out there in the same situation
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Hello,
You may want to consider contacting the American Cancer Society's National Cancer Information Center. Cancer Information Specialists are available 24 hours a day and can assist you with your questions. They can be reached at 1-800-227-2345.
I wish your mother the very best on her treatments.
Take care and be well,
Dana
CSN Dana0 -
Thanks for your reply. The problem is we are Irish and living in Ireland and Zevalin is a new treatment in this country and I was hoping someone out there had experience of dealing with it.We have been told that if the NHL is high grade zevalin will not work and she will only have a few months of life left as she can't have any more chemo. I guess I am just grasping at straws to see of any one else every sucesfully survived this kind of situation. Again thanks for your replyAuthorUnknown said:Hello,
You may want to consider contacting the American Cancer Society's National Cancer Information Center. Cancer Information Specialists are available 24 hours a day and can assist you with your questions. They can be reached at 1-800-227-2345.
I wish your mother the very best on her treatments.
Take care and be well,
Dana
CSN Dana
Karry0 -
I've never heard of zevalin before. You probably know by now if the zevalin is working or not anyway.
However I do have experience with transplants after heart attacks. I had one a month after a major heart attack, so they aren't completely out of the question. The main two reasons they wouldn't want to do the transplant after the heart attack are drug incompatabilities, or she is too weak to go through with it. In the first case, if the cardioligist and oncoligist work togeather they can work around the drug incompatibilities. If she's just to weak for the transplant there are a host of other options such as the zevalin, ritoxin, and immuno therapies, that won't cure her, but could buy her some time to allow her to regain strength in order to make it through the transplant. Even if she doesn't regain enough strength for a full transplant, there are mini transplants that might help or at least buy more time to allow her to regain her strength for another try at a full transplant.
As long as she's still breathing, there's hope.0
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