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My mother-in-law was just diagnosed with T Cell Lymphoma. The doctor suggested Chemo. How do you know the right decision for treatment. She is scared to make her decision for treatment.

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Mdonnelly77 sorry to hear
Mdonnelly77
sorry to hear about your mom. making treatment decisions is very tough. here's a link to Mayo Clinic guide on general treatment decisions for cancer.
But that guide doesn't address specific cancers. Typically, in lymphomas, T-cell lymphomas have poorer prognoses than B-cell lymphomas and tend not to respond as well to chemotherapy; but this does not apply to all types of T-cell lymphoma, in fact chemotherapy can be curative for some forms or subtypes.
What is her specific diagnosis?
Ross
Mdonnelly77- Another good
Mdonnelly77-
Another good resource-- perhaps the best-- for deciding about chemo is at the Journal of the American Medical Association's Cancer Chemotherapy page.
Ross