Why does he need what? The Adriamycin? It's the strongest of the
chemo drugs, and the one that he was supposed to get when he got too sick to
continue 2 weeks ago. I am not sure but think that his current improvement
is due to him getting CCNU last week, another chemo drug. If that is true,
then if he does not continue chemo the lymphoma will just come back (it may
anyway). With lymphoma, chemo protocols alternate different drugs to try
to keep the lymphoma from becoming resistant to any one of them, so even though
the CCNU seemed to help him the oncologist would not want to give that again
right away because it would encourage the cancer to become resistant to
it. Simon's lymphoma is already resistant to the 3 weaker drugs he
initially got, it seems, because when his blood work was too bad to get
Adriamycin he was given a weaker drug that had initially helped him but he just
got much worse like it did not help him at all.
Hope that makes sense,
Michelle
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