Your doctor may prescribe medicines that
will affect the growth of
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and relieve your symptoms.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy may be used alone or with radiation therapy. Sometimes a
combination of chemotherapy medicines is more effective than a single
drug.
The most commonly used combination is called CHOP. It combines four medicines: cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone.
Your doctor will work with you to find the best medicine for the type of lymphoma you have.
Chemotherapy causes many side effects. Your doctor may
prescribe
medicines to control nausea and vomiting from
chemotherapy.
Monoclonal antibodies
Targeted therapy uses monoclonal antibodies in medicine that is injected into the body so these antibodies can attach to cancer cells and destroy them. The monoclonal antibodies used to treat NHL include:Rituximab (Rituxan).Alemtuzumab (Campath).Ibritumomab (Zevalin).Tositumomab (Bexxar).
Other medicines
Some treatments use interferon or antibiotic medicines. Your doctor will suggest the treatment that works best for your kind of lymphoma.
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