I hate the term 'Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma' with a passion since it leads to generalisations that aren't helpful for patients, such as generalised survival rates. There are so many different types with different treatment regimes and prognoses - some of which are highly treatable and even curable, others which are almost untreatable.
I remember my mother reading stuff on the Internet when she was diagnosed with a type of NHL at late stage. And some of the stuff that is compiled from all of the statistics being dumped together scared the shit out of her, unnecessarily since the type she had had a cure rate even treated at late stage of over 70%.
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Date: 2010-03-10 11:30 pm (UTC)I remember my mother reading stuff on the Internet when she was diagnosed with a type of NHL at late stage. And some of the stuff that is compiled from all of the statistics being dumped together scared the shit out of her, unnecessarily since the type she had had a cure rate even treated at late stage of over 70%.