Small lymphocytic lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia?
What are the differences between these two diseases? Do they always occur simultaneously? Why are they always combined like SLL/CLL, are they the same disease?
Include details as much as you can please.im a medical student so i need details.
Thank You!
- zrepmd
These are basically the same disease, just represent different clinical manifestations. There have been attempts to classify them separately based on flow cytometry and other molecular findings but ultimately it looks like the same disease. With SLL, the dominant site is nodal, while in CLL, it is bone marrow and bloodstream. There are times when there is so much overlap that it is not possible to tell which "disease" it is.... hence you commonly see it referred to as SLL/CLL. Effective drugs are similar, as is prognosis.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/CLL/healthprofessional/
The above site has lots of CLL info; same site as plethora of NHL info as well.
Hope helps...
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