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Principles and Approaches to Diagnostic Bone Marrow Examination
Potentiates the body’s immune system to recognize and eliminate cancer cells. It has several types according to their mechanisms. Monoclonal Antibodies target lymphoma cells, directly or by tagging them for destruction by immune cells. Immunomodulating drugs enhance the immune system’s function, Immune checkpoint inhibitors block proteins that suppress the immune response. CAR T-cell therapy uses genetically modified patients’ T cells to express chimeric antigen receptors that recognize lymphoma cells.
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Mature T/NK Proliferations/Lymphomas and HL: Diagnostic Approach
Copyright: © 2024 |Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5818-1.ch013
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“T and NK-cell lymphoid proliferations and lymphomas” comprise nine groups with distinct cell origins, differentiation states, clinical features, localization, and cytomorphology. Most correspond to specific T or NK lineage. Still, few have a hybrid or indeterminate phenotype, including extranodal NK and T-cell lymphoma, EBV+ nodal T/NK-cell lymphoma, chronic active EBV disease, and severe mosquito bite allergy. The distinction between T- and NK cells is sometimes unclear. The main categories are Mature T-cell and NK-cell leukemias, Primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoid proliferations and lymphomas (CTCL), Intestinal T- and NK-cell lymphoid proliferations and lymphomas, Nodal T-Follicular Helper Cell Lymphomas, Peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCLs), EBV-related mature T-cell and NK-cell neoplasms, and Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTL). HL comprises classical HL (cHL) and nodular lymphocyte predominant HL (NLPHL) subtypes.
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A cancer treatment that helps the body’s immune system fight the cancer.
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