Chemotherapy regimen

Question 1

CHOP

Answer 1

a treatment choice for DLBCL
(C) Cyclophosphamide, a cancer drug
(H) Doxorubicin hydrochloride, a cancer drug
(O) Vincristine (older name: Oncovin), a chemotherapy drug that slows or stops cancer cells from growing
(P) Prednisone, a steroid that helps boost how well the chemo drugs work

Question 2

R-CHOP

Answer 2

(R) Rituximab, non-chemotherapy drug that is composed of man-made antibodies that help your immune cells destroy cancerous tumors.
The addition of rituximab replaced a longtime therapy called CHOP that didn’t work very well and was highly toxic.

FYI:
(C) Cyclophosphamide, a cancer drug
(H) Doxorubicin hydrochloride, a cancer drug
(O) Vincristine (older name: Oncovin), a chemotherapy drug that slows or stops cancer cells from growing
(P) Prednisone, a steroid that helps boost how well the chemo drugs work

Question 3

MEC

Question 4

BEAM