The study is focused on determining the response to therapy: how long it lasts, do certain
types of lymphoma respond better than others to prednisone, and most importantly how quality of life is improved.
Not exact matches
In a study
of 30 patients who received CTL019 for three different
types of non-Hodgkin
lymphoma, the researchers found that 59 percent
of patients
responded to the therapy (17
of 29, 15
of who experienced complete remissions
of their disease).
The research presentations cover a wide range
of disciplines, treatment approaches and cancer
types, including a unique form
of immunotherapy for ovarian cancer, promising results on a new treatment approach for Hodgkin
lymphoma in children and young adults and an effort to build a predictive tool to determine which patients are most likely to
respond well to checkpoint inhibitors.
Lymphoma is one
of the few
types of cancer that
respond pretty well to chemotherapy, but it is expensive and still usually just buys you (literally) a little more time.
Another test is being developed at Sentinel Biomedical to tell you which
type of lymphoma and how it will
respond to the standard CHOP or doxorubicin therapies.
Feline digestive health problems that often
respond favorably to diet change include IBD, Triad Disease, diabetes and certain
types of early
lymphoma (Don't make guesses about your cat's health problems - many other things can cause a cat to vomit or loose weight).
Fortunately,
lymphoma is one
of the few
types of cancer in dogs that can
respond well to chemotherapy.