Does anyone know what the prognosis for Mantle Cell Lymphoma is?!
Question: My sister in law has just been diagnosed and has started her Chemotherapy a few days ago. Any information I can find on the internet is quite negative and says that the prognosis is not good. Does anyone know any different? Is it treatable with a good outcome?
Answers: My sister in law has just been diagnosed and has started her Chemotherapy a few days ago. Any information I can find on the internet is quite negative and says that the prognosis is not good. Does anyone know any different? Is it treatable with a good outcome?
Type in Hackensack University Medical Center Lymphoma Mantle Cell. My oncologist is a world renouned researcher in the field of Mantle Cell Lymphoma. He has just come up with an FDA approved drug for fighting Mantle Cell.
According to the below website, " mantle cell lymphoma is considered to be an indolent non-hodgkins lymphoma, yet because 70% have stage IV at diagnosis, mantle cell lymphoma has only moderate prognosis. The prognosis is dependent upon the stage at diagnosis. The later the stage, the worse the prognosis...The average survival is 3-4 years."
Since this text indicates that most people are diagnosed at Stage IV and your sister is Stage I, and as most people are diagnosed at a later stage and have a 3-4 year survival on average, it would seem that your sister would have a better prognosis because it is an earlier stage to begin treatment. I am not a doctor, however, so it would be best for your sister to ask her oncologist what the prognosis is.
Also remind your sister that Lance Armstrong had a very poor prognosis, but his attitude and determination had a lot to do with his amazing outcome. There have been some amazing medical studies done on how prayer can influence the outcomes of things, even when people don't know that they are being prayed for. There have been studies done where people with congestive heart failure were assigned people who did not know them or communicate with them to pray for them, and they got much better compared to a control group who were not prayed for. There are similar studies on a fertility clinic in Korea where the people were assigned people all around the world who didn't know them to pray for them. The doctors at the clinic were not aware of the study. The women who were prayed for got pregnant about 50% more than the ones who were not prayed for. There have been other studies with ICU infants, who obviously were not aware that they were being prayed for, yet they got better much more than the babies who did not get prayed for.
I will pray for your sister.
If it's stage 1 it's prognosis is probably good, althought I don't know the exact numbers.
http://www.treat-cancer.nl/