But oddly, three months after she was diagnosed with lymphoma, her dog Maggie was too. My husband and I asked both the veterinarian and my oncologist if there might be a link, and while both of them felt that it was probably coincidental, it still gave me pause to speculate a bit about what that dog and I could have been exposed to that no one else was. Gerry's participating in the study, even though she knows getting answers will take years and may never help in her own battle with lymphoma. I just feel that cause is the name of the game, if we can discover the cause of the illnesses, we're way far ahead. Treatments for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma include radiation and chemotherapy.
Survival rates vary widely, depending in part on how advanced the disease is.