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Cancer Science & Therapy

Cancer Science & Therapy

ISSN: 1948-5956

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Truxima is a brand-name prescription medication. It’s FDA-approved to treat certain forms of the following conditions in adults:Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Truxima is used alone and with other drugs to treat different kinds of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL):Truxima alone for B-cell NHL. The cancer must be a type called CD20-positive. It must also be low-grade (slow growing) or a kind known as follicular lymphoma (FL). In addition, the cancer must be relapsed (came back) or refractory (didn’t improve) after treatment. For this use, Truxima is used alone.Truxima with chemotherapy for B-cell NHL. The cancer must be CD20-positive, low-grade or FL, and it must not have been treated before. For this purpose, Truxima is used with chemotherapy. If you have a partial or complete response* to Truxima and chemotherapy, you may go on to use Truxima alone.Truxima after chemotherapy for B-cell NHL. The cancer must be low-grade and CD20-positive. Also, it must be non-progressing. This means that the cancer didn’t get worse after you tried chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone (Rayos). For this purpose, you’ll use Truxima alone.Truxima with chemotherapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. The diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) must be CD20-positive and must not have been treated before. For this purpose, Truxima is used with the drugs cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone, or with other chemotherapy medications known as anthracyclines.

 

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