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Oncology for Palliative Medicine$
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Peter Hoskin and Wendy Makin

Print publication date: 2003

Print ISBN-13: 9780192628114

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192628114.001.0001

Lymphomas

Chapter:
(p. 201 ) Chapter 15 Lymphomas
Source:
Oncology for Palliative Medicine
Author(s):

Peter Hoskin

Wendy Makin

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192628114.003.0015

This chapter covers lymphomas, which comprises a wide range of diseases, from very indolent low-grade lymphomas to highly aggressive conditions such as lymphoblastic lymphoma. The definitions of the different variations and subtypes of lymphoma are rapidly changing; however, the practice of palliative care in the aggressive and non-aggressive lymphomas remains valid and useful. Management of lymphomas remains largely dependent on the palliative practices employed in the broad categories of Hodgkins and non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The focus of this chapter is on the main categories of lymphoma: the Hodgkins lymphoma and the non-Hodgkins disease.

Keywords:   lymphomas, low-grade lymphomas, aggressive lymphomas, non-aggressive lymphomas, Hodgkins lymphoma, non-Hodgkins lymphoma

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