All right, so let's learn a little bit about lymphoma.

There's not a crazy amount that you need to know for lymphoma,

but there's definitely some high-yield things,

some buzzwords that they like to bring up on the exam.

So focus on the stuff you need to know,

and I won't waste your time with the stuff.

I don't think you do.

As always thank you so much for all of the really kind comments, the support I really do appreciate it and I just

wanted to thank you again for that.

So let's go ahead and get started with lymphoma. First

thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to break down the word lymphoma

so we can kind of understand what's going on here. So lymphoma, lymph stands

for lymphocytes, oma stands for tumor. So essentially we have a tumor derived from lymphocytes.

Now what about Hodgkin versus non-Hodgekin? What's that all about? Well, all that means is either

the presence or the absence of something known as Reed Sternberg cells.

Hotchkins, you got Reed Sternberg cells, non-Hodchkins, you don't.

And that's basically it with non-Hodgekin and Hodgkin lymphoma.

I'll go over Reed Sternberg cells once we break down the individual diseases and talk a little bit more about that.

All right, so with that being said, we have a basic understanding of what the actual terminology means.

Let's start with Hodging and lymphoma. I feel of the two, this one probably comes up a bit more on the exams. I feel like there's a few more of the buzzwords and things like that. So, Hodgkin Lymphoma, this is a hematologic malignancy of mature B cells originating in the lymphatic system. So B cell has this

abnormal gene arrangement in these patients and due to this abnormality instead of

the cell going through the regular apoptosis,

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