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Advice please ref Hodgkin's Lymphoma Stem cell or immunotherapy

SU2108
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Husband 70 yrs

Classic Hodgkin's lymphoma 1999

Classic Hodgkin's lymphoma 2010

Classic Hodgkin's lymphoma 2024

COPD Gold

Sarcoïdosis

Prostate cancer 2023 under control/remission

Heart attack 2015

Now hubby has been diagnosed again with Hodgkins lymphoma, stage unknown. He's had two cycles of GDP which resulted in mucus bleed and admittance to hospital for 4 units of blood to bring blood count to normal values. The two cycles of chemo have him in remission. Now he is being offered stem cell transplant or wait until he comes out of remission when they can carry out immunotherapy. We have been told that there is a risk he won't survive the stem cell (self donor) and that full cure is possible but not guaranteed and that recovery time would be tough and up to a year.

What would you do? Any advice please?

  • Hi SU2108,

    Welcome to Cancer Chat. I can see you've had a reply to your other post from one of our nurses, and hopefully this has been helpful.

    There's not much I can add to that, but I hope that you're able to make the decision soon - and that this forum can be useful for you in the meantime.

    Wishing you all the best,

    Ben
    Cancer Chat Moderator

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