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Prednisone is a steroid and can cause its own side effects, including:

Hair loss, including your eyelashes and eyebrows.

Feeling cold, weak, and out of breath from anemia.

Fever, muscle aches, headache, and shivers from low white blood cell counts.

You may be more likely to get them if you’re also receiving radiation or another treatment. Two of the R-CHOP drugs - cyclophosphamide and doxorubicin - have been linked to problems in one of your heart’s chambers.Īny side effects are most likely to happen when you first start R-CHOP therapy. Heart problems, including heart failure, are possible risks for people being treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. You take your first dose the same day that you take the other infused drugs and for 4 days after that. You take prednisone as a pill once a day for 5 days. You might get rituximab as an IV on a separate day from the other three drugs. Your doctor may divide your first dose over 2 days to slowly monitor how it affects you. This tube stays in place until you finish your treatment.Įach infusion may take several hours. A long, thin tube called a catheter goes into your arm and is threaded up to a large vein near your heart. It stands for peripherally inserted central catheter. This allows the medication to go directly into a large vein of your heart.

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Similar to an IV, but it uses a larger tube or a number of tubes that hook up to a port that goes under your skin near your chest. A needle put into a vein in your arm or hand is connected to a tube carrying the drugs.Ĭentral line.

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A nurse or another medical professional injects the medication into your vein in one of these ways: On the first day of each cycle, you’ll get the four of the five drugs - all but prednisone, the steroid. If your cancer is in the earliest stages, I or II, you may start with radiation therapy and then go through three or four cycles of R-CHOP. The whole treatment lasts several months. You may have as many as eight or as few as three. On average, people receive six cycles in a row. Depending on your cancer and your overall health, you may get more frequent doses, once every 14 days. Usually, you receive an R-CHOP dose every 21 days. (P) Prednisone, a steroid that helps boost how well the chemo drugs work.(O) Vincristine (older name: Oncovin), a chemotherapy drug that slows or stops cancer cells from growing.(H) Doxorubicin hydrochloride, a cancer drug.The addition of rituximab replaced a longtime therapy called CHOP that didn’t work very well and was highly toxic. The R comes from rituximab, which is not a chemotherapy drug but is composed of man-made antibodies that help your immune cells destroy cancerous tumors. R-CHOP is named for the initials of the five drugs. Most often, R-CHOP is used to treat the most common form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma called diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).

It’s a first-line treatment for aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a group of blood cancers. R-CHOP is a combination of five drugs that work together to target and kill cancer cells.