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Treatment

Medical Therapy

  • There is no treatment for enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma; the mainstay of therapy is supportive care. The optimal therapy for enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma depends on the extent and the location of the lymphoma in the small intestine.[1] Stem cell transplant can be helpful in those patients that are in remission phase of disease.[2]
Treatment of enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma[1]
Therapy Description
Supportive therapy
Surgery
Chemotherapy
  • May be offered to people who can tolerate it:
  • Following surgery
  • When the cancer cannot be removed by surgery or is extensive

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma . Canadian Cancer Society. http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-type/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/types-of-nhl/enteropathy-associated-t-cell-lymphoma/?region=on Accessed on January 26, 2016
  2. Rongey C, Micallef I, Smyrk T, Murray J (June 2006). "Successful treatment of enteropathy-associated T cell lymphoma with autologous stem cell transplant". Dig. Dis. Sci. 51 (6): 1082–6. doi:10.1007/s10620-006-8013-z. PMID 16865575.