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Surviving Lymphoma
After surviving lymphoma treatments, patients should be on the lookout for late effects. These are symptoms that arise well after treatment has...
Animals
Canine lymphoma is a fairly common cancer in American dogs. The most commonly seen lymphoma in America is a type called Lymphosarcoma, although...
Hodgkins Lymphoma
Advances in the treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma have resulted in remarkable survival rates, even for...
Surviving Lymphoma
Since so many chemotherapy agents can affect a patient’s sex drive and fertility, thinking about these issues prior...
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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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Treatment
The short answer: both. Let's begin with a simple definition of radiation: Radiation is the energy emitted from an energy source. That energy...
T-Cell
According to a study by Japanese researchers, the SMILE combination chemotherapy protocol is effective against extranodal natural killer/T-cell...
Surviving Lymphoma
Patients treated with maintenance rituximab had three times longer progression-free survival. This is a summary of an article published in the...
Research and Education
When you consider that the adult human body has anywhere from 300 to 700 lymph nodes, the better question might not be where ARE they located, but...
Non-hodgkins Lymphoma
This entry looks at a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma called true histiocytic lymphoma (THL), also referred to as diffuse histiocytic lymphoma, and...
Lymphoma
Lymphomatous meningitis [LM], also known as leukemic meningitis, is an extremely serious peripheral cancer that attacks the tissue that covers the...
Hodgkins Lymphoma
Hodgkin's Disease—also referred to as Hodgkin's Lymphoma, these are the exact same diseases, just...
Animals
While the average lifespan for hamsters is only about 2.5 years, and they are therefore less prone to long-term illnesses, it is possible for a...
B-Cell
Burkitt's lymphoma is an aggressive B-cell lymphoma that is common in children...
Treatment
Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system, causing B-cell or...
T-Cell
The term NK T cell lymphoma refers to one of two subtypes of lymphoma that affect the NK (Natural Killer)...
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...
Treatment
T cell lymphoma treatment options for these cancers are not especially effective and there is no absolute consensus about optimal treatments for...
B-Cell
Non-hodgkins Lymphoma
Lymphomas can arise from most any lymphatic tissue (lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, mucosa associated lymphoid...
Hodgkins Lymphoma
Often the one who makes the first diagnosis of Hodgkin's Lymphoma / Disease is the person affected. There are some...
B-Cell
There are two organs considered to be primary lymphoid organs: the thymus and the bone marrow. Then there are secondary lymphoid organs, and this...
T-Cell
In non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, you have your B-cell lymphomas and you have your T-cell lymphomas.
Why B...
Chemotherapy
BEAM chemotherapy is an acronym representing a small family of combination chemotherapy regimens that are used chiefly as salvage regimens in the...
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...
Treatment
The steroids used in cancer treatment are actually part of a class called corticosteroids.
Adrenal glands in our bodies...
Chemotherapy
Prednisone is a glucocorticosteroid (a steroid) used in the treatment of many types of cancers. It functions as an anti-inflammatory medicine that...
Mantle Cell
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare type of B-Cell lymphoma. It presents itself in the mantle zone of lymph nodes...
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...
B-Cell
This entry looks at testicular lymphoma, or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the testis. '...