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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
These tests are not used to help diagnose non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but they may be done if you are going to get certain chemotherapy drugs commonly used to treat lymphoma that may affect the heart or the lungs. 1  Your heart function may be checked with an echocardiogram (an ultrasound of the heart) or a MUGA scan.any symptoms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma are not specific enough to say for certain if they are being caused by cancer. Most of them can also be caused by non-cancerous problems, like infections, or by other kinds of cancers.