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ABOUT NHL 

ABOUT LYMPHOMA:  
Cell Types | Classifications |  Diagnosis | Grades - Indolent ... Intermediate/Aggressive ... Grading and Cell Type
Overview | Explanation of Lymphoma |  Explanation, simplified | Pathology | Prognosis/Survival | Risk factors | Spontaneous Regressions | Staging | Statistics | Symptoms | Transformation 

ABOUT REMISSION & RESPONSE:
Disease state:  Remission | Tumor Burden | Stable Disease | Progressing Disease
Treatment response: Partial Response | Complete Response | Molecular Response

ABOUT TYPES OF LYMPHOMA: 
ALL | Burkitt's | CNS | Childhood | CLL/SLL | Diffuse Large Cell | Follicular | Hodgkins |  Large Cell Immunoblastic | Lymphoblastic | MALT / MALTOSA | Mantle Cell | Marginal Zone | Splenic | T-Cell |  Waldenström’s  

BACKGROUND - Biology and Immunity:  
Apoptosis | B-cell maturation | Blood | CD antigens | Cells | Definitions | Growth Factors & Cytokines | Illustrations | Immune System | Lymphatic system | Microenvironment |  Molecular Targets | T-cells

CURRENT:  
Press Releases and Research Publications updated daily  | Archived 2002  | Archived 2003

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ADVOCACY

AWARENESS: 
Art & Lymphoma | Famous people with NHL | Fighting Cancer and Terrorism - Our Fight is Similar |
Statistics about Lymphoma  Incidence and Survival -- Cancer statistics | Blood Cancers | NHL: Incidence & Mortality | Symptoms | Trends

ISSUES:  
How many CTs? | Concerning Bexxar - a letter to the FDA | Compassionate Use of Investigational Drugs |  Bexxar Issues | Ethical Concerns in Randomized Vaccine Trials |  Evaluating New Drugs | Fast track low toxic therapies | Insurance Denials | New treatment paradigm | Patient Access to Emerging Therapies |  Is it Possible to Design Quality Non-randomized trials?  |  Support the Progress Review Group Plan | Tissue Bank Proposal (coming soon)  | Transparency needed  in the Drug Evaluation System (coming soon) | 
CMS Petition - Policy that will deny reimbursement for novel therapies to cancer patients

TOOLS: 
Current Advocacy Actions | Contact Links | Contact tips | Contact Your Reps  | How to address letters | White House E-mail contacts

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COMPLEMENTARY & ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (CAM)

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE:  
Acupuncture | Evaluating medical claims and data | Treatments 

LIFE STYLE (COMPLEMENTARY): Allergens | Diet | Exercise

CHEMOTHERAPY AND SUPPLEMENTS: 
Chemotherapy considerations: Doxil? | Antioxidants | Fish oil | Glutamine/Whey | Melatonin 

SUPPLEMENTS: 
Alerts | Antioxidants | Arginine | Beta-carotene | Cautions | CoQ10 | Copper | Herb/ Drug  interactions |
Evidence-based approach is no guarantee of veracity | Fats | Fish oil | Garlic | Ginger | Glutamine | Green tea | Herbs | Immune-support | Iron | Licorice root | Melatonin | NAC | Quercetin | Resveratrol | Rosemary | Selenium | St. John's Wort | Silymarin | Turmeric | Vitamin A | Vitamin C | Vitamin D-3 | Vitamin E |  Whey Protein | Zinc

RADIOPROTECTIVE  SUPPLEMENTS:  
Antioxidants | Fats & Fatty Acids | Phytochemicals

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CLINICAL TRIALS

ABOUT: 
About Clinical Trials | Basics | Canadian Access Program | Expanded Access & Compassionate Use | FDA terms and abbrev | Terminology | Travel for treatment 

ADVOCACY: 
Comparing randomized vaccine trials | Ethics & Issues | Obstacles | Patient Rights | Proposals | Ethical Concerns in Randomized Vaccine Trials | Why Pts don't participate in Clinical Trials | Testing low toxic treatment on W&W pts (coming soon)

CLINICAL TRIALS - Finding NHL treatment studies made EASY in: 
The ClinicalTrials.gov database | How to use and conduct more specific searches |  
By NHL subtype | By Treatment Type | By Setting | By State or Country

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DOCTORS & CENTERS

FIND:  
Find Board Certified Oncologists by State | Find Cancer Centers

PATIENT-TO-PATIENT:
Pt-recommended Lymphoma oncologists by State | Pt-recommended Alternative Docs

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SIDE EFFECTS

Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting | Bowel problems

Chemo protection (complementary) | Chemotherapy side effects | 
Chemotherapy treatment support: 

General | Alternative Suggestions | Avoiding Infections | 
Diet Guidelines | Diet for Immunosuppressed | Fight nausea |
Oral Health | Constipation | When to call your doctor

Fatigue | Hair loss | Low blood counts | Lymphedema | Nausea | Pain | Neuropathy 
Oral problems | Radioprotection strategies (complementary) | Radiotherapy side effect | Sexual & Fertility | 
Skin problems

SUPPORT

EDUCATION & EVENTS: 
Ask the Doctor | Ask Question - Patient-to-patient | Evaluating medical claims and data | Events | Webcasts

GENERAL: 
Anxiety and depression | Flu shots | Free Printable Treatment Diary |  Insurance Denials | Travel for treatment

PALLIATIVE:
Palliative care (Hospices) | Pain Management 

PATIENT-TO-PATIENT: 
Art| Being a | Doctor to Patient Relationship | Encouragement | Guidelines at Diagnosis | 
Issues & Patient Perspectives | Patient Case Histories | Pt-recommended Lymphoma oncologists by State | 
Pt-recommended Alternative Docs | Personal Stories | Support groups | Travel for treatment 

SUPPORT GROUPS: How to join and change subscription options to online support groups
Acor.org |  CLL | Hematological | LRF | MALT | Mantle Cell | NHL-Follicular | NHL-Large Cell Diffuse | NHL-info | NHL-Low | NHL-UK | NHL-Vaccine | Transplants | Subscribe or change email settings

SIDE EFFECTS: 
See above

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How to Help Us : Ask a Question | Sign our Guest Book | Suggest Content | Make a Donation |  Our Mission & History

TREATMENT SUPPORT: 
Antioxidants & chemo? | Avoiding infections | Chemo support | Chemotherapy considerations: Doxil? | 
Fish oil & chemo? | Glutamine/Whey & chemo? | Melatonin & chemo? | Side Effects 

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TESTS & IMAGING

DIAGNOSTIC:
Biopsy | Bone Marrow Biopsy | DiSC Assay | Flow Cytometry | Histology | Immunocytochemistry |  Immunoglobulins 
Lumbar Puncture | LymphoChip | Molecular Diagnostic Tests

IMAGING:
About & Comparing | Bone Scan | CT | Gallium scan | Lymphangiogram | MRI | PET Scans | Ultrasound

LABS:
Blood Tests | CBC | Disease direction Indicators | LDH | Human beta-2 microglublin |  Immunoglobulins | T-cells

OTHER:
DiSC Assay | Doppler | Endoscopy | Epstein Barr

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TREATMENT OVERVIEW

ABOUT TREATMENTS: 
Biologics | Elderly | Evaluating medical claims and data | Molecular Targets | Side effects | Treatment Agents & Targets | Treatment Overview | Treatment Overview Links |  Quality of life |  Webcasts | What's New

ASCO 2002 Abstracts - Links to

COMPARING TREATMENTS: 
Combination Chemotherapy Protocols: A Review |  Comparing Vaccines | Bexxar vs. Zevalin | Comparing randomized vaccine trials | Comparing Time to Progression | Combination Chemotherapy Regimens 

DECISIONS: 
Clinical Trials | Guidelines at diagnosis | Treatment decisions | One patient's treatment strategy | Watch & Wait

MOLECULAR TARGETING OF TUMORS:
LymphoChip | Molecular Targets

SPECIFIC TREATMENTS: 
Antibodies for NHL | Biologics | Chemotherapy & Low dose Chemo | CHOP | CHOP - optimizing | Comparing Vaccines | Radioimmunotherapy (Bexxar / Zevalin / other) | Bone Marrow Transplants | Comparing Randomized Vaccine trials | Fludarabine | Radiotherapy | Rituxan | Vaccines

TREATMENTS - EMERGING & TARGETS: 
Adenovirus | Antiangiogenic | Anti-bcl-2 | Anti-BLyS | Anti-idiotype Antibodies | Anti-PKC | Anti-VEGF | Antibodies (all)  | Arsenic | Biologics | BR 2778 | Cell  cycle arrest | Combination Treatments | CpG oligonucleotides  | CP-461(SAANDS) | Cyclin dependent kinases | Histone heacetylase inhibitor | Immunotoxin with antibody | Measles virus | Microtubules | Proteasome inhibitor | Radio-labeled antibodies | Telomerase | Thalidomide | Topoisomerase-I inhibitors | Vaccines Trial Protocols  for NHL

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