This article examines clinical and biological features of DLBCL patients with poor outcomes, and reviews recent studies addressing alternatives to standard front-line management strategies together with unresolved questions.
This review addresses the rationale and evidence for—and the challenges, cost implications, and future development of—proton therapy as an important part of the treatment strategy in Hodgkin lymphoma.
The management of leukemias and lymphomas now includes the use of many targeted therapies. Nurses need to have an understanding of the targeted therapies and their side effects so they can appropriately manage the side effects that their patients with leukemias and lymphomas may experience.
In this article, we review the current knowledge on the biological findings, clinical features, and therapeutic approaches for splenic marginal zone lymphoma.
The aim of this review is twofold: to summarize descriptions of the clinical presentation provided in published series in order to help clinicians recognize and treat patients, and to discuss diagnostic difficulties faced by hematopathologists when dealing with these lesions and others in the differential diagnosis that must be distinguished from one another.
A 58-year-old man developed acute myeloid leukemia. After responding to remission-induction high-dose chemotherapy, he received an allogeneic stem cell transplant that was complicated by a graft-versus-host reaction. While being treated for the latter with prednisone, tacrolimus (Prograf), and mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept), he developed both fungal pneumonia and osteomyelitis caused by Fusarium species.
A 2-year-old girl being treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia develops a low-grade fever and two hemorrhagic bullae in the groin.
A 63-year-old male was hospitalized following a massive hemorrhage secondary to a motor vehicle accident and subsequent infection of a surgical site. Three weeks post-admittance his WBC demonstrated a marked elevation.
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