Shorter Treatment for NHL
A new study has found that survival rates among elderly patients affected by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has increased by using a different treatment method.
The treatment involves cutting the standard chemotherapy time in half, but still using the same combination and doses of drugs and antibodies.
Dr Luke Coyle from Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital says the new, shorter burst of treatment has effective results.
"It's very exciting to have the scientific proof that you can do it better and you can treat patients in a shorter period of time, which will hopefully allow them to tolerate the procedure much better as well," he said.
"It's a very difficult thing in your life to have six months of therapy punctuated by regular hospital visits and hopefully this will perhaps be compressed into a much shorter period, perhaps three months."
He says the practice is now likely to be adopted in all Australian hospitals.
Source: Yahoo News
