Chemotherapy is the mainstay remedy for eye lymphoma. Therapies might be native (injected immediately into the attention) or systemic (given orally or injected right into a vein, underneath the pores and skin, or into the cerebrospinal fluid).

Native Remedy

Native chemotherapy contains methotrexate or rituximab injected immediately into the vitreous humor. Methotrexate is a strong drug that kills most cancers cells. At decrease dosages, it’s used to deal with inflammatory autoimmune circumstances corresponding to rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.

Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody that targets and attaches to a protein discovered on the floor of B cells. That is poisonous to B cells and leads to their dying.

Eye lymphoma has additionally been recognized to reply to exterior beam radiation, based on the American Academy of Ophthalmology. This can be a remedy that goals radiation at a selected a part of the physique (on this case, your eye or eyes) to kill most cancers cells.

Systemic Remedy

Systemic remedy impacts your entire physique. For systemic chemotherapy, you could get methotrexate and rituximab, as you’d with native remedy. The distinction is how they’re delivered — both orally or injected right into a muscle, a blood vessel, your spinal wire, or underneath your pores and skin. Different highly effective anticancer medicines used to deal with eye lymphoma embrace:

• Etoposide (Toposar, Etopophos)
• Lenalidomide (Revlimid)
• Temozolomide (Temodar)

In case your medical doctors are recommending a second radiation methodology past native exterior beam radiation, it’s going to most likely be entire mind radiation, based on the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Complete mind radiation is normally useful when eye lymphoma has unfold to the mind, which occurs in many individuals, based on some analysis.