Information sheets
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What is lymphoma?
Symptoms of lymphoma
Tests, diagnosis and staging
- Being referred for tests and scans
- Blood tests
- Scans: X-ray, CT, PET and MRI
- Ultrasound scan
- Biopsy
- Bone marrow biopsy
- Lumbar puncture
- Waiting for test results
- Staging of lymphoma
- Your medical team
- Questions to ask your medical team
Treatment for lymphoma
- Treatment for lymphoma overview
- Treatment and remission
- Active monitoring (watch and wait)
- Chemotherapy
- Radiotherapy
- Antibody therapy (including rituximab)
- Targeted drugs
- Biosimilars for lymphoma
- Maintenance therapy (including rituximab maintenance)
- Stem cell transplants
- Splenectomy (having your spleen removed)
- Complementary therapy
- Treatment during pregnancy
- Growth factors
- Blood transfusions
- Immunoglobulin replacement therapy
- Steroids
- About clinical trials
- Questions about clinical trials
Side effects of treatment
- Anaemia
- Thrombocytopenia (low platelets)
- Neutropenia
- Risk of infection
- Nausea and vomiting
- Bowel problems
- Chemo brain (cancer-related cognitive impairment)
- Fatigue
- Hair loss
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Dry, sore and itchy skin
- Sore mouth (oral mucositis)
- Late effects of treatment
- Early menopause
- Reduced fertility
Living with lymphoma
- Day-to-day living
- Diet and nutrition
- Exercise and physical activity
- Foreign travel: precautions and vaccinations
- The emotional impact of living with lymphoma
- Managing stress
- Recovery after treatment
- Follow-up appointments
- Self-management and remote monitoring
- What happens if lymphoma relapses?
Relationships and caring
- Relationships, family, friends
- Communicating with the people around you
- Talking to children about lymphoma
- Caring for someone who has lymphoma
Lymphoma and the end of life
Lymphoma in children and young people
- Lymphoma in children
- Lymphoma in young people
- Practical advice for parents and carers
- Practical advice for young people with lymphoma
Hodgkin lymphoma
- Hodgkin lymphoma overview
- Classical Hodgkin lymphoma
- Nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma overview
- Mantle cell lymphoma
- Burkitt lymphoma
- Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
- T-cell lymphomas
- Peripheral T-cell lymphoma not otherwise specified (PTCL-NOS)
- Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL)
- Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL)/follicular T-cell lymphoma (FTCL)
- Intestinal T-cell lymphomas
- Adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma (ATL)
- Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type
- Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma
- Follicular lymphoma
- Hairy cell leukaemia
- MALT lymphoma (extranodal marginal zone lymphoma)
- Nodal marginal zone lymphoma
- Splenic marginal zone lymphoma
- Waldenström’s macroglobulinaemia
- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL)
- Skin lymphoma
- CNS lymphoma
- Other rare high-grade B-cell lymphomas (Grey zone, double-hit, triple-hit and high-grade B-cell lymphomas, not otherwise specified)
- Transformation of lymphoma