Many people have heard of leukemia and find it a terrifying disease, even thinking that it cannot be cured. In fact, leukemia can be cured. Below, we will provide a detailed introduction to NK cell lymphoma leukemia.
Leukemia: usually refers to a state in which malignant blood tumor cells appear in the bone marrow or peripheral blood. The standard is that the malignant tumor cells in the bone marrow or peripheral blood exceed 20%, which is called leukemia.
If leukemia contains tumor cells such as lymphocytes, it is called lymphocytic leukemia;
If it contains granulocytes, it is myeloid leukemia;
If it contains NK cells, it is NK cell leukemia. According to the course of the disease and the degree of differentiation, it can also be divided into acute or chronic.
Lymphoma: refers to a malignant tumor of lymphocytes, usually presenting as a tumor mass (lump, mass), which is commonly referred to as lymphoma; But in fact, it can also occur in the form of leukemia, which is lymphocytic leukemia. Therefore, lymphoma broadly includes lymphocytic leukemia.
If diffuse large B-cell lymphoma usually starts as a tumor, for example, a patient who had a tumor in the neck underwent biopsy and was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. At this point, the doctor will perform a bone biopsy on the patient to determine if there are lymphoma cells in the bone marrow. If there are, the proportion is not high, less than 20%, which we usually refer to as "lymphoma bone marrow invasion". This type of patient belongs to stage IV patients; If the proportion exceeds 20%, we call it 'lymphoma leukemia'.
Some patients initially did not have it, but later had poor treatment results and lymphatic cancer cells in their bone marrow, with the same diagnostic criteria. Note that these are just different manifestations or developmental stages of the same tumor. It does not mean that lymphoma and leukemia are two different tumors at the beginning, but rather different stages of one tumor. Of course, invading the bone marrow is more serious than not invading the bone marrow.
Lymphoma, lymphoblastic lymphoma, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which often occur in the form of leukemia, are currently considered as a disease. Sometimes they occur in the form of leukemia, and sometimes in the form of lymphoma (with lumps or masses). T cell-derived tumors are more common in the form of mediastinal masses, while B cell-derived tumors are more common in the form of leukemia.
Nk cell lymphoma leukemia can be cured with current medical technology. As long as a matching bone marrow is found, the recipient's bone marrow can be extracted for bone marrow transplantation treatment. Of course, bone marrow transplantation is not life for life, and the amount donated is not large, so the harm to the donor is not significant.
