Interferon treatment?!
Question:
Interferon treatment?
Hello! Next week my mom needs to start Interferon Alpha 2b injection therapy. The side effects are numerous (flu symptoms, mental problems, weight loss... etc) and we are very scared. Do you have any experience with Interferon?
Answers:
May god give her a good health to your mom & I pray for the speedy recovery.
Interferon alpha 2b is the first, and to date, the only adjuvant therapy indicated for high-risk patients with melanoma that has been completely treated with surgery. A major concern with interferon alpha 2b use has been that most patients experience flu-like side effects, such as muscle pains, headache, fever and chills, over the course of therapy, and they may also show reduced white blood cells. Patients receiving high-dose interferon alpha 2b in that initial trial had significant benefit, in terms of both overall survival and relapse-free survival.