City of Hope - New decisions
Thursday we spent the day at the famous City of Hope. It's so strange when you've heard about a place your whole life and then you see it in person. It's huge, very organized, friendly, and it felt surreal. We met with Dr. Nadamanee. She is obviously an expert in cancer and in lymphomas specifically. The long and the short of it is that this is a fast moving type of T-cell lymphoma. Most lymphomas are in the B-cells. It is rare so there aren't as many studies. The "Standard of Care" is CHEOP once a week for 18 weeks. This is heavy duty chemo regime consisting of 5 drugs. They are doing clinical trials where they are adding a 6th (with the chance of higher toxicity). Then, when the lymphoma is in remission, they do a stem cell transplant (hopefully with my own stem cells) with a 3-4 week stay at City of Hope. I am not showing "B symptoms" like night sweat and fevers, so we may have caught this early. I also have only 1 of the 5 things that impact...