you had the treatment in this article? If so- did it kick the cancer to the curb hopefully? How l ong before your white blood cells begin fighting bacteria and viruses again>?? Did they give you an estimate?
I’m sorry if I gave that impression. No, I didn’t have CAR-T. I had rituxan only. Rituxan is a monoclonal antibody which targets a specific protein. IIRC, Rituxan is but one of the drugs used in CAR-T.
It was so weird, to my way of thinking. I was diagnosed in late May, about now, one year ago. I started the rituxan treatment in June. I had four in total spaced one week apart. On July 11, the doc said he could not see any more lymphoma in my blood. I am back to the “watch and wait” (I call it “whine and worry”) stage of lymphoma.
About white cells back at work, I think it was 6 - 9 months for that to happen. I had some blood work done last month (kidney infection) which showed normal lymphs. Although my idea of avoiding people isn’t a bad one. I didn’t get sick during the winter. I ALSO didn’t get the flu shot. I also want to clarify, mine is a small B-cell lymphoma. This particular treatment is for T-cell lymphomas.