| Abstract | OBJECTIVE: To review the epidemiology, pathology, clinical features, prognostic factors, and treatment approaches of patients with AIDS-related lymphoma. DATA SOURCES: Research studies and review articles. CONCLUSION: Aggressive B-cell lymphoma has become one of the more common of the initial AIDS-defining illnesses in the United States. Median survival of affected patients has improved considerably with the use of highly active anti-retroviral therapy directed against human immunodeficiency virus, along with multi-agent chemotherapy, and outcome of such patients now approaches that of human immunodeficiency virus-negative patients with aggressive lymphoma. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Oncology nurses must be knowledgeable of AIDS-related lymphoma to provide supportive care to this patient population. |
| Authors | Alexandra M Levine
(Affiliation: Division of Hematology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. alevine at usc.edu)
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| Journal | Seminars in oncology nursing
(Semin Oncol Nurs)
Vol. 22
Issue 2
Pg. 80-9
(May 2006)
ISSN: 0749-2081 United States |
| PMID | 16720230
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
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| Topics |
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
(therapeutic use)
- Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
- Humans
- Incidence
- Lymphoma, AIDS-Related
(drug therapy, epidemiology, pathology)
- Prognosis
- Recurrence
- United States
(epidemiology)
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