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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...
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...
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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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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'...
Mantle Cell
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is just one of 50-60 known B-cell subtypes of...
Lymphoma
Lymphomatous meningitis [LM], also known as leukemic meningitis, is an extremely serious peripheral cancer that attacks the tissue that covers the...
Surviving Lymphoma
Secondary cancers are cancers that develop as a result of chemotherapy and/or...
Lymphoma
One of the greatest fears of lymphoma survivors is that they’ll relapse and have to undergo treatment again. This fear is normal but awful to...
Surviving Lymphoma
Over the years, various classification systems have been used to differentiate lymphoma types including the Rappaport Classification (used until...
Lymphoma
If you are new to this website or are looking for guidance to a specific page, here is a list of links to articles that can help you. The "Main...
Hodgkins Lymphoma
Often the one who makes the first diagnosis of Hodgkin's Lymphoma / Disease is the person affected. There are some...
Lymphoma
Lymphedema is abnormal swelling due to the presence of excess lymphatic fluid within the tissues. This swelling occurs when the...
Lymphoma
There are two types of cancer: benign and malignant. Benign cancers are the kind that don't spread and don't threaten one's life. Malignant...
Hodgkins Lymphoma
Advances in the treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma have resulted in remarkable survival rates, even for...
Side Effects
Prednisone is a type of medication called a glucocorticoid or a corticosteroid. These kinds of medications have nothing to do with anabolic...
Chemotherapy
RICE is an acronym for an anti-cancer treatment that expresses a combination chemotherapeutic regimen. This regimen is written variously as "R+ICE...
Lymphoma
As a kind of cancer, lymphoma attacks the lymphocytes and lymph nodes that are part of the immune system. Head and neck lymphoma results when...
Surviving Lymphoma
The Follicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index, or FLIPI, is a standardized guide to help oncological diagnosticians accurately calculate...
Surviving Lymphoma
The mantle cell lymphoma survival rate is highly variable. One of the several dozen known and recognized B-cell...
Chemotherapy
BEAM chemotherapy is an acronym representing a small family of combination chemotherapy regimens that are used chiefly as salvage regimens in the...
Lymphoma
Usually, even if a subtype of lymphoma is known to be indolent (slow-growing), it is considered a malignant...
Lymphoma
The term 'metastatic lymphoma' does not refer to a diagnosis. Unlike many of the subtypes of lymphoma we have...
Surviving Lymphoma
B cell lymphoma is not one disease but a few dozen heterogeneous diseases, or individual cancers, that affect the b...
Animals
Lymphosarcoma is a malignant tumor (or tumors) derived from lymphoid tissue (lymph nodes, tonsils, thymus, spleen, etc.). It is an illness that...