Five years after my lymphoma diagnosis, life looks normal on the outside; however, the fear of recurrence and the reality of ...

The five-point Deauville scale (5PS), used to score 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake on FDG positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scans, has prognostic value in follicular ...

Follicular lymphoma -- typically a slow-growing or indolent form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that arises from B lymphocytes -- ...

Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET-CT) rather than conventional CT scanning should be used to image and assess follicular lymphoma, concludes a study in The Lancet Haematology.

FDG-PET is a powerful tool for the imaging of various lymphomas. Authors present findings concerning PET at staging and post-treatment evaluation of follicular lymphoma.

Patterns of extranodal involvement predict early clinical failure in patients with follicular lymphoma (FL), according to a newly published study that looked at this variable in a large series of ...

Prognostic value of PET-CT after first-line therapy in patients with follicular lymphoma: a pooled analysis of central scan review in three multicentre studies.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 86-year-old woman who was recently diagnosed with follicular lymphoma, stage 3A. It was discovered on a CAT scan when I went to the ER for diverticulitis. I have no ...

With follicular lymphoma, you may go through many treatments over many years to keep the disease stable. Here’s a guide to all your options.

PET is highly sensitive in detecting nodal and extranodal involvement of common types of lymphoma (eg, diffuse large B-cell NHL, follicular NHL, mantle cell NHL, HL).

Purpose [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used for the staging and restaging of patients with aggressive lymphoma, but less is known about the utility of PET in ...

We conducted a retrospective review of 181 PET scans performed in 117 nonselected consecutive patients with FL treated in our institution from 2002 to 2007. Patients who underwent PET examination ...