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For people with aggressive B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, we commonly recommend a chemotherapy treatment called R-CHOP. It is named after the medicines included in the mixture: rituximab (RituxanÂ®), a monoclonal antibody that helps your immune system destroy the cancer cells and makes the chemotherapy more powerful
Fireman et al. (9) reported the DMC for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to be $48,000. The mean cost of cancer care and treatment per patient-year for lymphoma was $8,969 in the study of Guelen gÃ¼len et. al