* Radiation therapy: This treatment uses radiation (X-ray high energy) to destroy cancer cells. Usually this is a local treatment, ie the treatment is focused on only a part of your body where lymphoma.
* Transplantation: Sometimes high doses of chemotherapy destroy the lymphoma and to your bone marrow, which is the factory that produces blood cells. To help your bone marrow to produce new blood cells, a number of “stem cells” (stem cells, immature cells that were transformed into red blood cells, white and platelets) are derived from the bone marrow with a special machine, before chemo.
These cells are transplanted (returned) after your body. These transplanted cells will find the way to his bone marrow and restored so that it can produce new blood cells healthy.
There are two types of transplants:
* Autologous transplant – using your own bone marrow or stem cells.
* Transplant Allogenes – uses bone marrow or stem cells from a donor (usually a brother or sister).
