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PCNSL treatment methods: if the watch and wait was used before and now its chemo thats being used...how does that work...the cancer, did it suddenly switch from non-agressive to agressive? why the suddn change?!

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Submitted by Ross on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 13:31.

Not sure where you're reading that PCNSL's treatment methods have changed, but there are some lymphomas that do over time develop from indolent into aggressive cancers. Brain tumors in general take years to develop, sometimes decades, but that would be no reason to take a watch-and-wait approach. Generally with PCNSL the patient's age determines treatment, and those under 60 who are healthy typically undergo chemo and even some radiation.

Either way, if there has been a sudden change in treatment approaches it could simply signify a breakthrough in understanding the disease.

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Submitted by Anya Jaye Kurth on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 12:53.

i dont have a clue about any of this. im learning as we go. to make a brief summary, Chance and i are both 18. he got diagnosed with cancer on july24th this year. the doctors didnt say anythign for a long while and then 2 weeks ago they diagnosed it as PCNSL nd i did a little research and found wht im guessin had to have been the watch and wait...i mean why would they take 4 months to tell you you need to start chemo in 2 weeks? thats doesnt make sense to me at all.years....? well how come the tumoure is just now affecting us then? would Chance have been sick at least a little for a while?

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