Half-dose of chemo can still cure older lymphoma patients

Half-dose of chemo can still cure older lymphoma patients

People ages 80 and older with a common type of lymphoma can take a half-dose of chemotherapy and be cured or significantly extend their survivorship with fewer toxic side effects, a new study shows. Senior investigator Paul Barr, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, presented the study at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting. It doesn’t make sense to give an 80-year-old cancer patient the same dose of chemot…