A 49 year old lady came in with severe weakness in the leg and inability to walk. An MRI scan showed a large mass at the bottom of her back. Biopsies confirmed this as a Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (A cancer of the lymph glands). She received 6 cycles of chemotherapy, which unfortunately relapsed in the brain. Radiotherapy was administered to the brain.
Since there was no disease elsewhere in the body, she underwent a high dose chemotherapy followed by an Autologous Stem cell transplant (When the stem cells are from the patients own blood) to ensure that the disease does not recur.
Lymphoma has high cure rates but resistant disease needs aggressive approach to cure patients. (was she cured eventually?)