Malignant lymphoma is not common, but it is diagnostically important because many are potentially curable with careful selection and supervision. But how is this selection to be made? How do Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma differ in diagnosis and prognosis? Is a viral aetiology plausible?

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Malignant lymphoma is not common, but it is diagnostically important because many are potentially curable with careful selection and supervision. But how is this selection to be made? How do Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma differ in diagnosis and prognosis? Is a viral aetiology plausible? Excision biopsy provides histological information, but what conclusions can we draw? How do patients present? Radiology can guide treatment; radiotherapy can be curative; there are many possible chemotherapeutic regimens; bone marrow transplant is a remarkable development. But how are decisions made about which treatments to use, and why?

Lymphoma: a curable cancer answers these and other questions. 1993, 35 mins.