What You’ll Learn: A Patient-Led Guide to Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL)

Our “Office Hours” are designed to feel like a conversation with a well-informed friend who actually listens. We dive deep into the questions patients actually ask, translating complex clinical data into actionable steps for your care.

Topics:

• Understanding Your Diagnosis: Why DLBCL is the most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma and how its “aggressive” nature actually makes it more treatable and curable.
• The “Alphabet Soup” Decoded: An expert breakdown of standard frontline treatments like R-CHOP and the newer Pola-R-CHP—and what they mean for your daily life.
• Fueling Your Recovery: Why “calories are king” during treatment and how simple movement (like walking) can help you overcome chemo-fatigue (extreme exhaustion caused by treatment).
• Advocating for Your Future: How to talk to your care team about advanced options like CAR T-cell therapy (using your own immune cells to fight cancer) if the first treatment doesn’t work.

Experts:

• Dr. Tycel Phillips, MD
  Associate Professor, Division of Lymphoma
  City of Hope, Los Angeles, CA
• Dr. Robyn Stacy-Humphries, MD
  DLBCL Patient Advocate & Radiologist