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Does asbestos cause additional malignancies other than lung cancer and mesothelioma?
Published in Dorsett D. Smith, The Health Effects of Asbestos, 2015
In a letter to the editor of The Lancet, on January 22, 1983, Spanedda and co-workers from Italy reported two other cases, one with multiple myeloma, and one with a chronic B-cell lymphocytic leukemia. (Spanedda R, La Corte R, Minisci S et al. Exposure to asbestos and lymphoid neoplasms. Med Lav 1983;74(4):295–301.) Olsson and Brandt responded to Ross’s paper, in a letter to the editor of The Lancet on March 12, 1983, in which they reviewed 169 cases of men with a recent diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, admitted to the hospital between 1979 and 1982. All occupations were recorded up to the day of diagnosis. They found 11 patients with histiocytic lymphomas of the oral cavity and GI tract, and another six patients with histiocytic lymphomas in the oral cavity and GI tract at other sites, for a total of 17 patients. None of these had been exposed to asbestos for any significant length of time. They went on to state Thus our data does not support a relation between asbestos exposure and histiocytic lymphoma presenting in the oral cavity or gastrointestinal tract. There is evidence that exposure to several exogenous factors may promote the development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma [e.g. irradiation or exposure to organic solvents, chlorophenols, phenoxy acids, and Epstein–Barr virus]. (Olsson H, Brandt L. Asbestos exposure and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Lancet 1983;1(8324):588.)
Miscellaneous procedures
Published in A Stewart Whitley, Jan Dodgeon, Angela Meadows, Jane Cullingworth, Ken Holmes, Marcus Jackson, Graham Hoadley, Randeep Kumar Kulshrestha, Clark’s Procedures in Diagnostic Imaging: A System-Based Approach, 2020
A Stewart Whitley, Jan Dodgeon, Angela Meadows, Jane Cullingworth, Ken Holmes, Marcus Jackson, Graham Hoadley, Randeep Kumar Kulshrestha
As previously described, PET–CT is of particular value when staging FDG-avid lymphomas. There are 61 different types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) (formerly referred to as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma) and six types of Hodgkin lymphoma. There are also lymphoma types considered ‘indolent’, meaning slow growing [46].
Accurate demarcation of a biased nucleus from H&E-stained follicular lymphoma tissues samples
Published in The Imaging Science Journal, 2023
Cancer is a collection of diseases that can invade and spread to different body parts and is defined by abnormal cell proliferation. It is a fatal illness that affects people all across the world, not just in India. Only in the United States, it was predicted that there would be 6,09,360 cancer fatalities and 19,18,030 new cases of cancer (including all varieties) in 2022 [1]. Across all sites, men have a 40% higher cancer death rate and a 20% higher cancer incidence rate than women [1]. Lymphomas are white blood cell cancer that starts in infecting-fighting cells of the immune system, known as lymphocytes. These lymphomas can be divided mostly into two groups. Hodgkins lymphoma (HL), which verifies the existence of Reed-Sternberg cells, comes first (giant cells found with light microscopy). Non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL), which excludes Reed-Sternberg cells, is a different classification. Since it is hard to study and examine every type of cancer under one heading, this study focuses on a subtype of non-Hodgkins lymphoma named follicular lymphoma (FL).