Just Diagnosed

Hello everyone,

I've just been diagnosed as of yesterday with Mantle Cell Lymphoma, blastoid variant.  I've already set up an appt at MD Anderson in Houston for next Monday.  Reading all of your stories gives me some hope that I didn't have after my initial internet searches.  I'll post more after I visit with them next week.  For now, I'll just say I'm a 45 year old male that thought I had simply overdone it and had pulled a stomach muscle.  Wish I had.  That would have been a tad bit easier to deal with.

Brad

 Brad all the best and MD Anderson is a good hospital, I was involved with them when I was an oncology nurse doing  studies on cancer patients.

I also would like to add that The Cancer Treatment Centers of America offer regular medication for cancer along with alternate.  They also do a great job.  www.cancecenter.com  I myself used alternate with regular and it worked well for me.  Only you can decide what to do but I would read up about them on the net.  They offer wonderful support also.

Elaine 

On 3/13/2007 Ntbrad wrote:

Hello everyone,

I've just been diagnosed as of yesterday with Mantle Cell Lymphoma, blastoid variant.  I've already set up an appt at MD Anderson in Houston for next Monday.  Reading all of your stories gives me some hope that I didn't have after my initial internet searches.  I'll post more after I visit with them next week.  For now, I'll just say I'm a 45 year old male that thought I had simply overdone it and had pulled a stomach muscle.  Wish I had.  That would have been a tad bit easier to deal with.

Brad

On 3/13/2007 Ntbrad wrote:

Hello everyone,

I've just been diagnosed as of yesterday with Mantle Cell Lymphoma, blastoid variant.  I've already set up an appt at MD Anderson in Houston for next Monday.  Reading all of your stories gives me some hope that I didn't have after my initial internet searches.  I'll post more after I visit with them next week.  For now, I'll just say I'm a 45 year old male that thought I had simply overdone it and had pulled a stomach muscle.  Wish I had.  That would have been a tad bit easier to deal with.

Brad

Brad,

What is the Blastoid kind? I have MCL and have been through 6 rounds of R-CHOP , Stem Cell Transplant, and am currently on a 2 yr plan of Rituxan Maintenence, 1 yr done, and all scans have been clear. God Bless you on your journey.

Kathy  :)

On 3/13/2007 Shemay wrote:

Hi Brad........Please check your private messages. I have contacted you there......... Shemay

 

On 3/13/2007 Ntbrad wrote:

Hello everyone,

I've just been diagnosed as of yesterday with Mantle Cell Lymphoma, blastoid variant.  I've already set up an appt at MD Anderson in Houston for next Monday.  Reading all of your stories gives me some hope that I didn't have after my initial internet searches.  I'll post more after I visit with them next week.  For now, I'll just say I'm a 45 year old male that thought I had simply overdone it and had pulled a stomach muscle.  Wish I had.  That would have been a tad bit easier to deal with.

Brad

 

Hi Brad,

You're young, like me, to have this exact disease - the blastoid kind - kick in the teeth prognosis eh - I've had this since July. I'm getting treatment for it - the CHOP-R regime. If you want to chat or have any questions please feel free to contact me. All the best.