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 ...

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).

Learn about the role of PET scans in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. This article looks at diagnosis, staging, how PET scans work, and more.

The utility of [18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET-CT) in assessing response at the end of induction therapy is well documented in Hodgkin's and ...

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 ...