ILOs
- Lymphoma/myeloma classification
- Understand difference between high grade ‘aggressive’ and low grade ‘indolent’ lymphoma
- Understand presenting symptoms of lymphoma
- Investigation and staging of lymphoma
- Treatment of lymphoma (commoner subtypes)
- Presentation and diagnosis of myeloma
Both Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma are lymphomas — a type of cancer that begins in a subset of white blood cells, lymphocytes; the main difference between Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is in the specific lymphocyte each involves. The third part of the talk covers myeloma, a blood cancer arising from plasma cells. At any one time there are around 24,000 people living with myeloma in the UK and it accounts for 15% of blood cancers.
Part 1: Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (NHL)
- What is lymphoma?
- How do we divide up the different categories of lymphoma?
- What is the incidence of NHL in the UK?
- How do patients with lymphoma present?
- How do we investigate patients with lymphoma?
- What is the purpose of these investigations?
- Outline the staging system we use for lymphoma…
- What’s early stage and advanced stage lymphoma, and when is it typically diagnosed?
- What are the factors affecting treatments for patients with lymphoma?
- How do we divide up the subtypes of NHL?