Information sheets
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What is lymphoma?
Symptoms of lymphoma
Tests, diagnosis and staging
- Being referred for tests and scans
- Blood tests
- PET/CT scan
- Ultrasound and X-ray scans
- MRI 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
- Palliative care
- Getting ready for treatment (prehabilitation)
- Remission
- Active monitoring (watch and wait)
- Chemotherapy
- Radiotherapy
- Targeted treatments and antibody therapy
- Maintenance therapy
- Stem cell transplants
- CAR T-cell therapy
- Splenectomy
- Complementary therapy
- Lymphoma during pregnancy
- Lymphoma treatment for people with other conditions
- Growth factors
- Blood transfusions
- Immunoglobulin replacement therapy
- Steroids
- Lymphoma drug development, approval and funding
- About clinical trials
- Questions about clinical trials
Side effects of treatment
- Anaemia
- Thrombocytopenia (low platelets)
- Neutropenia
- Infection: risk and prevention
- Nausea and vomiting
- Bowel problems
- Chemo brain (cancer-related cognitive impairment)
- Cancer-related fatigue
- Hair loss
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Dry, sore and itchy skin
- Sore mouth (oral mucositis)
- Late effects of treatment
- Early menopause and lymphoma
- Reduced fertility
Living with lymphoma
- Day-to-day living
- Diet and nutrition
- Exercise and physical activity
- Travelling outside the UK if you have lymphoma
- The emotional impact of living with lymphoma
- Managing stress
- Recovery after treatment
- Follow-up for lymphoma
- Supported self-management
- Lymphoma that comes back (relapses) or doesn't respond to previous treatment (refractory)
Relationships and caring
- The impact of lymphoma on relationships
- 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
- Follicular lymphoma
- 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)
- Hairy cell leukeamia
- Skin lymphoma
- CNS lymphoma
- Grey zone, double-hit, triple-hit and high-grade B-cell lymphomas, not otherwise specified
- Transformation of lymphoma