Options For Treating Castleman Disease

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is an ideal way to treat multicentric Castleman disease because of how it moves around the body. These types of drugs act on the cells in the process of multiplying. This means healthy cells in the cell division process, cancerous cells in the cell division process, and abnormal noncancerous cells like the ones in multicentric Castleman disease that are in the cell division process. The objective of chemotherapy is to shrink the size of the growths or eradicate the growths in the lymph nodes all together. For particularly severe cases of multicentric Castleman disease, a combination of chemotherapy and radiation may be used to help shrink and dissipate the hard growths in affected lymph nodes.