What Is The Survival Rate Of A 50 Year Old

Posted on Fri, 9 Nov 2018

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Question : what is the survival rate of a 50 year old man who is being treated for slow growing small cell follicular lymphoma? he is being treated with RCHOP or CHOP (not sure what it is called) and Newlesta.

Answered by Dr. Dr. Esmeralda Sera (1 hour later)

Brief Answer:
Lymphoma

Detailed Answer:
Hello and thank you for asking

For patients with advanced forms of follicular lymphoma (ie, stages III and IV disease) the average survival is approximately 19 years. Despite its slow-growing nature, most cases of follicular lymphoma are not curable with currently available therapies.

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Follow up: Dr. Dr. Esmeralda Sera (1 hour later)

For someone who is in very good health what is the rate of remission if the treatment is 6 rounds of chemo?

Answered by Dr. Dr. Esmeralda Sera (15 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Lymphoma

Detailed Answer:
Some trials proved that patients who received first-line R-CHOP 20% progressed within 2 years, and the 5-year overall survival of these “early progressors” was only 50%, compared with 90% for patients without early disease progression

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T