
Stage 4B Hodgkins Lymphoma & Stage 4 Non Hodgkins Lymphoma
This is an index to the blog and I have split it into sections, readers can select particular therapies & blogs by clicking on the links, each should open in a new tab so that the reader can keep the “Index” page open.
This blog begins with the diagnoses leading to the stages and on to the therapy with remission, relapse and return to remission.
*IMPORTANT*
* PLEASE READ BEFORE ENTERING THE BLOG PAGES *
It is important to note that my case was unusual- generally A.B.V.D Chemotherapy works well in battling Lymphoma with a very high success rate. On more advanced cases like mine Stage 4B Multiple Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (multi sites plus liver & lung) it is more spread and harder to beat.
I did enter remission in 2016 following A.B.V.D & Radiotherapy – so even at that point A.B.V.D & Radiotherapy were successful on a person with Stage 4 Lymphoma in their 50’s.
Relapse within 5 years of beating Lymphoma is very unusual and again in my case it took months to properly confirm.
So anyone just diagnosed with Lymphoma, recovering from Chemotherapy or in remission following A.B.V.D should really consider if it is necessary to read My Relapse section as hopefully it will not happen to you.
I have changed the layout of the index page – the medical procedures commence from first diagnosis in 2014 to date and the general post for 2017 to 2022 are now at the end of the Index Page

All Medical Procedures
Diagnoses, Mental Health and the beginning February 2014
- H.L.D. This is where the Story Starts – 10th Feb 2014
- Diagnoses & Staging Feb to March 2014
- P.E.T. Scan March 2014 (PET No 1)
- Mental and Physical approach to regimes Feb 2014
A.B.V.D. Chemotherapy March to August 2014
- ABVD Chemotherapy Part 1 March to April 2014
- P.E.T. Scan May 2014 (PET No 2)
- Chemotherapy Steroid Induced Diabetes
- ABVD Chemotherapy Part 2 2014 May to August
Radiotherapy November to December 2014
Remission 2015 and all the missing procedures from 2015 to March 2017
- Remission 2016, and all the parts not covered in the blog to date
- Ultrasound Fine Needle Aspiration March 2014
- P.E.T Scan No 4 May 2015
I.C.E Chemotherapy April to May 2017
- My Relapse Story : ICE Cycle 1 – 10th April 2017 Ian Doherty
- My Relapse Story : ICE Cycle 2 – 2nd May 2017 Ian Doherty
- My Relapse Story: ICE Cycle 2 – P.E.T. Scan 18th May 2017 (P.E.T. Number 9)
- My Relapse Story: Stem Cell Transplant Team meeting 23rd May 2017
- My Relapse Story: ICE Cycle 3 – 27th May 2017
- My Relapse Story: Stem Cell Harvest 6th June 2017
B.E.A.M Chemotherapy June to July 2017
- My Relapse Story: B.E.A.M Chemotherapy 6th July 2017
- My Relapse Story: Stem Cell Transplant 13th July 2017
- My Relapse Story: Post Stem Cell Transplant
- My Relapse Story: Transplant Plus Day 4 to discharged
- My Relapse Story: Discharge 2017
- My Relapse Story: Summary
- My Relapse Story: PET Scan (P.E.T. Number 10)
- My Relapse Story: Remission – In or Out
- My Relapse: Remission March 2018
- Moving on up … March 2018
Follow up and continued procedures 2018 to 2021
- Oncologist Meeting May 2018
- Oncologist Meeting August 2018
- Oncologist Meeting December 2018
- 12 Months 1 year or 365 days later ….
- Friday the 13th July 2018 Vs 13th July2017
- 5 Years Today 14 Feb 2019
- Oncologist Meeting April 2019
- Eye’s June 2019
- Various Procedures July 2019
- Oncologist Meeting August 2019
- Eye’s Again Sept 2019
- Admission Sept 2019
- Oncology Meeting Jan 2020
- 3 Years Ago Today
- Stem Cell Transplant: 3 years later
- Second Oncologist Meeting 2020
- Update’s November 2020
- Six years ago today…..December 2020
- Oncologist Meeting Feb 2021 Part 1
- Oncologist Meeting Feb 2021 Part 2
- Oncologist Meeting August 2021
Follow up and continued procedures 2022
💜 5 Years All clear remission💜
- Oncologist Meeting March 2022
- CT – NTAP May 2022
- Scan Results May 2022 5 Years All clear remission
- IVIG July 2022
General Post: 2022
- January and into Feb 2022
- Covid 19, Cancer and Mental Health 2022
- Four Year Anniversary
- Happy 60th Birthday to Ian
- Cancer Warrior’s : Terry
- Cancer Awareness Donation Appeal
- GoFundMe 2022
General Post: 2017 – 2021
- Anita’s Third Articel
- 9th April 2021
- 3th July 2021 – 4 Years since SCT, Mental health,
- Christmas 2021
- Cancer & Coronavirus
- Looking Back at the 10s
- Doves – Purity Peace Love and Harmony
- The last post of 2019
- Think Ahead – Irish Hospice Foundation
- 5 Years Later….
- November Love it or hate it 2019
- A Stroke of Luck or Not ? 2019
- “Be Here Now” The Andy Whitfield Story
- Remission Anniversary: One Year Cancer Free
- Celebration Of Life Ball Nov 2018
- A Priceless Photograph Nov 2018
- Anita’s Blog about Ian – October 2018
- Mental Health August 2018
- Mum 1932 – 2018
- Awareness 2017
💜 5 Years All clear remission💜
2022

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