chemo

I wouldn't replace chemo with other alternative treatment, despite the damage chemo could potentially bring.

In short, they use stem cells harvested from cord blood to rebuild your bone marrow after ablative chemo.

Throat cancer is a very hard course of treatment as you have radiation daily plus weekly chemo.

Other people socialized a lot in the hospital and talked to each other about chemo side affects,...

Diet and exercise combined with a low stress lifestyle will maximize your bodies ability to recover from the chemo.

Avoid sick people and don't be near young kids if your chemo destroys leucocytes which is typical for Lymphoma treatment.

It's very likely that you are steril after chemo so bank sperm/eggs depending on your gender.

The PET-CT after my chemo showed that and now 3 months later my first aftercare CT shows that as well.

IF this turns out to be malignant and requires chemo, avoid stress if at all possible.

If you decide to take 'normal' western treatments (chemo/radiation), before you start, bank sperm or eggs, depending on your sex.

In case you get chemo newest studies show that vitamin d could be helpful [1].

Confirm any supplements/vitamins with your doctor as some chemicals can hinder the chemo meds.

We're going to do chemo for 6 months, then you'll be done!" Rather, you get "we're going to start chemo, and we'll continue to monitor your progress." We also need to set sane expectations for our own abilities.

There was a paper published last year by this group where they did a study of Cancer patients (and a bigger study in mice) receiving a particular kind of Chemo, and their immune systems post therapy were basically 'rebooted'.