08/03/2024
Fighting Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Cancer, the size of a tennis ball in my left lower lung lobe and now in some of my lymph glands.
Today was the last of four weekly, 6 hour days at the City of Hope with Georgia getting my infusion of Rituxan, Immunology. Most folks ask, what is the difference between immunology and chemotherapy? Immunotherapy teaches healthy cells to recognize the cancer cells and stop their growth. That is, chemotherapy directly degrades cancerous cells and tumors, while immunotherapy jump-starts the immune system to work smarter and harder to fight the cancer on its own.
Next step is to get radiation to hopefully destroy all the cancer cells. Five days a week for five weeks. Yipee!