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T-Cell
According to a study by Japanese researchers, the SMILE combination chemotherapy protocol is effective against extranodal natural killer/T-cell...
Testing
The Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR - sometimes called sed rate or sedimentation rate) is a nonspecific screening test for various...
Testing
Blood counts can be used to identify disease and monitor patient health during cancer treatments. Though these tests cannot diagnose lymphoma on...
Surviving Lymphoma
Fatigue is a lack of energy or weakness that differs from drowsiness. Fatigue will not go away with extra rest because it is usually the result of...
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Symptoms
With any cancer, early detection is the best predictor of long-term survival, and lymphoma is no
Prognosis
Diffuse large B cell lymphoma prognosis is contingent upon
Lymphoma
The pathophysiology of lymphoma refers to the process or processes going on inside the body that
Treatment
It's very common for people recently diagnosed with a subtype of
Animals
Canine lymphoma, just like lymphoma in
Mantle Cell
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is just one of 50-60 known
Symptoms
Lymphoma is a general term for cancer in the lymph system. The lymph system is made up of many
Symptoms
There are four stages of both Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL)
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Mantle Cell
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare type of B-Cell lymphoma. It presents itself in the mantle zone of lymph nodes...
T-Cell
Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (CTCL) is a rare, low grade (indolent) type of...
T-Cell
In T cell lymphoma, T lymphocytes, which are an essential part of the body's immune response, become malignant. T cell lymphomas account for about...
T-Cell
Lymphomatoid Papulosis (LyP) is a rare skin disorder that involves cancerous looking skin lesions. It is more than a skin condition; it is the...
T-Cell
In non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, you have your B-cell lymphomas and you have your T-cell lymphomas.
Why B...
MALT
MALT lymphoma is a rare B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that typically runs an indolent or slow-growing clinical...
Mantle Cell
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a relatively rare B-cell subtype of non-Hodgkin'...
T-Cell
In general, a diagnosis of T-cell lymphoma denotes a poorer prognosis than a diagnosis of B-cell lymphoma. One of...
Mantle Cell
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is just one of 50-60 known B-cell subtypes of...
Nutrition
After some of the dust has settled, the thoughts of many new lymphoma patients turn to diet and nutrition. They want to know if, in the past,...
T-Cell
The term NK T cell lymphoma refers to one of two subtypes of lymphoma that affect the NK (Natural Killer)...
Surviving Lymphoma
In a perfect world, every case of cancer would respond to, and be cured by first-line therapy. Unfortunately, it is not often the case. This is...
Chemotherapy
Prednisone is a glucocorticosteroid (a steroid) used in the treatment of many types of cancers. It functions as an anti-inflammatory medicine that...
Chemotherapy
In 1964, researchers at the National Cancer Institute developed the first combination chemotherapy that cured a...
Chemotherapy
CHOP chemotherapy is one of the most common chemotherapy regimens for treating Non-...
Surviving Lymphoma
Since so many chemotherapy agents can affect a patient’s sex drive and fertility, thinking about these issues prior...
Surviving Lymphoma
Secondary cancers are cancers that develop as a result of chemotherapy and/or...
Surviving Lymphoma
After surviving lymphoma treatments, patients should be on the lookout for late effects. These are symptoms that arise well after treatment has...
Surviving Lymphoma
Lymphoma is a life-threatening disease, but is very treatable in most cases. The 5-year survival for patients diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's...
Lymphoma
Lymphomas can arise from most any lymphatic tissue (lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, mucosa associated lymphoid...
Surviving Lymphoma
Over the years, various classification systems have been used to differentiate lymphoma types including the Rappaport Classification (used until...
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Chemotherapy is...
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Chemotherapy is...
Chemotherapy
Is there such a thing as an average cost of chemotherapy? No. Not even close. In order for there to be an average cost of chemotherapy, one would...