Lymphoma treatment

Asymptomatic slow-growth lymphoma may be monitored. This will be ‘active monitoring’, during which we will regularly check up on your health in case of any new symptoms or changes in your general health status. Monitoring includes keeping in contact with a physician either by phone or at appointments, monitoring of blood values and imaging examinations.

Symptomatic slow growth B-cell lymphoma is treated using a biological medication named rituximab. If the disease has a high volume, or if the biological medication does not cause a sufficient response, chemotherapy will be added. This treatment is known as immunochemotherapy.

We treat fast growth lymphomas with chemotherapy or, in the case of fast growth B-cell lymphoma, with immunochemotherapy. After that, for some patients we can perform a high-dose chemotherapy supported with stem cell transplantation.

Halfway through the treatment period, we usually confirm with a CT scan whether the lymphoma tumors have decreased in size. After your treatment period, we will examine the treatment response of the lymphoma using a PET/CT or CT scan.