Sept 12, 2013

Day 1 of chemotherapy.  Nothing too eventful.  Hooked me up to the IV.  Started first with the rasburicase which is to prevent tumor lysis syndrome.  Then some anti-nausea med and then finally with bendamustine. 

*Bendamustine injection is used to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL; a type of cancer of the white blood cells). Bendamustine injection is also used to treat a type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL: cancer that begins in a type of white blood cell that normally fights infection) that is slow spreading, but has continued to worsen during or after treatment with another medication. Bendamustine is in a class of medications called alkylating agents. It works by killing existing cancer cells and limiting the growth of new cancer cells*.

Feeling pretty good no adverse reactions.  Tomorrow Day 2 get to have more anti-nausea meds and some benadryl and then Rituximab.*

*Rituximab destroys both normal and malignant B cells that have CD20 on their surfaces, and is therefore used to treat diseases which are characterized by having too many B cells, overactive B cells, or dysfunctional B cells.*