For more information regarding Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and its forms and treatments visit: www.lymphoma-net.org, stroke.www.life-threatening-diseases.com, Chinawww.4uherb.com. Mantle cell lymphoma is a fast growing tumor that spreads through the body in fact is a rare form of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma which is not very easy to diagnose. It has a very rapid evolution and reaches all the parts of the body.



That's why chemotherapy is the most indicated treatment because injected through the veins can be dispersed in the whole body. Radiation therapy has a limited indication in the treatment of Mantle Cell Lymphoma. Surgery can remove tumor from only one part of the body that's why is not recommended.

CHOP is a combination of four drugs and is administered in a single day, and repeated every 3 weeks for 6 to 8 cycles. But, there are many other combinations of chemotherapy drugs which are administered as tablets or intravenous at every few hours or days and each cycle is repeated once or more times week.

It is not an easy job to cure Mantle cell lymphoma because very often it doesn't respond to any kind of treatment and the combination of drugs have shown much toxicity and even intolerable for some patients.

Your doctor should decide whether a kind of treatment is proper or not to treat your Mantle cell lymphoma. In addition to chemotherapy, biological therapy has proven successful results in most form of lymphoma. It involves monoclonal antibodies which identify cancer cells and kills them. Rituximab has been used in most of the Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and in mantle cell lymphoma with good results and proved efficacity.

Mantle Cell Lymphoma and new medicines:

Bortezomib is a drug that has effect on proteasomes and hasten the death of the tumor cells.

Another possible treatment that has been taken into consideration is the bone marrow transplant. If a donor is found after chemotherapy, bone-marrow and stem cell transplants is a solution. But, considering the fact that usually patients with mantle cell lymphoma are old and they are not able to receive the transplants. This procedure is an alternative for some patients.

Mantle Cell Lymphoma and radiation therapy

After chemotherapy radiation to the affected area, radiation may be of a good effect, especially if the disease is in an early stage and it has not affected the whole body.

In fact, mantle cell lymphoma is not curable even if it may have a good initial response to chemotherapy, but after months or years the disease has severe manifestations. The idea of the treatment is to offer quality to life and keep that apparent health as long as possible. Because the science is revolutionary your doctor may advise you to participate in clinical trials and test new treatments.