Surgery for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) are a diverse group of blood cancers derived from lymphocytes that vary significantly in their severity. Surgery is not often used as a treatment because of the efficacy of chemotherapy, biological therapy, radiotherapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. We rev...

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Published in:Oncology Reviews 2015-07, Vol.9 (1), p.274-274
Main Authors: Weledji, Elroy Patrick, Orock, George Enow
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Biopsy
Bone marrow
Chemotherapy
Classification
Epstein-Barr virus
Histology
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Infections
Lymphatic system
Lymphoma
Medical imaging
Medical prognosis
Non-Hodgkin’s
Review
Spleen
Stem cells
Surgery
Tomography
Transplants & implants
Tumors
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Summary:Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) are a diverse group of blood cancers derived from lymphocytes that vary significantly in their severity. Surgery is not often used as a treatment because of the efficacy of chemotherapy, biological therapy, radiotherapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. We reviewed the natural history and possible role of surgery for NHL. Surgery may be useful in confirming or refuting an equivocal radiological diagnosis through biopsy, removing symptomatic limited disease from an affected organ and in splenectomy for primary splenic lymphoma. Emergency abdominal surgery for acute complications of NHL provides palliation and diagnosis. There is as yet no consensus as to the optimum treatment for symptomatic limited disease affecting an organ and timing of chemotherapy perioperatively. Prospective randomized trials are required.
ISSN:1970-5565
1970-5557
1970-5565
1970-5557
DOI:10.4081/oncol.2015.274