Lymphoma experts discuss DLBCL
Understanding your DLBCL makes the next conversation with your doctor easier.
Plain-language conversations with lymphoma specialists and people who’ve lived it, so you can walk into your next appointment feeling more prepared.
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What is DLBCL, in plain terms?
Dr. Tycel Phillips answers the questions patients actually ask about diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Dr. Tycel Phillips, lymphoma specialist at City of Hope, with Dr. Robyn Stacy-Humphries, radiologist and DLBCL patient advocate
What you’ll come away with
- What DLBCL is and how doctors approach it
- What to expect from treatment, and how eating well and staying active can help you through it
- How to raise next-step options with your care team
Tests and results
What do my test results mean?
Blood work, biopsies and imaging explained by a lymphoma specialist and a three-time DLBCL survivor.
Dr. Tycel Phillips, City of Hope, with Dr. Robyn Stacy-Humphries, radiologist and three-time DLBCL survivor
What you’ll come away with
- What common labs, like CBC and LDH, measure
- How biopsies and imaging fit into your care
- How often blood work is usually done during and after treatment
Treatment
What are my treatment options?
Two lymphoma specialists talk through how treatment is evolving, and how to weigh effectiveness against quality of life.
Dr. Andrew Evens, Rutgers Cancer Institute, and Dr. Tycel Phillips, City of Hope, with Stephanie Chuang, lymphoma survivor and founder of The Patient Story
What you’ll come away with
- How treatment approaches are changing, and what that could mean for decisions
- How to weigh effectiveness against side effects and daily life
- Questions to ask your doctor, and what life after treatment can look like
This conversation also covers follicular lymphoma.
If things change
What if the plan changes?
Two specialists explain what options can come next if a first treatment doesn’t go as hoped, and how your doctors can work together.
Dr. Joshua Brody, Mount Sinai, and Dr. Amir Steinberg, Westchester Medical Center, with Stephanie Chuang, lymphoma survivor and founder of The Patient Story
What you’ll come away with
- What next-step options exist, and how doctors think them through
- How academic and community oncologists coordinate your care
- Clinical trials in plain language, and questions to ask about them
Hear from others
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Real, unscripted stories from The Patient Story community — diagnosis, treatment and life afterward, in their own words.
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