Lymphoma and leukaemia which serious?

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What is the relationship and difference between leukemia and lymphoma? After seeing pathology, especially after acute lymphoblastic leukemia or lymphoma, feel the whole person confused? Why is acute leukaemia: leucocyte increases in hematic picture, and bone marrow picture shows 3 lines to reduce however, this is not a bit contradictory? Now let's learn about lymphoma and leukemia, which is serious? It's a matter of time.

Lymphoma and leukaemia which serious?

First: leukemia usually refers to a state in which malignant blood tumor cells appear in bone marrow and peripheral blood. Usually, the standard is that more than 20% of malignant tumor cells in bone marrow or peripheral blood are called leukemia. If the malignant blood tumor cells are lymphocytes, it is called lymphocytic leukemia; If it's granulocyte, it's granulocytic leukemia; It's NK cells. It's NK cell leukemia. According to the course of disease and degree of differentiation, it can also be divided into acute or chronic.

Second: lymphoma refers to the malignant tumor of lymphocytes, usually with tumor mass (tumor, mass) onset, this form, used to be called lymphoma; But in fact, it can also start in the form of leukemia, which is lymphocytic leukemia. So lymphoma broadly includes lymphocytic leukemia.

Third: note that this is just different manifestations or different stages of development of the same tumor. It does not mean that lymphoma at first and leukemia later are two kinds of tumors, just different stages of one tumor. Of course, bone marrow invasion is more serious than no bone marrow invasion.

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It should be noted that in rare cases, for example, some patients suffer from chronic myeloid leukemia and later lymphoma, which is different at this time. Such patients are suffering from two kinds of tumors at the same time, and the treatment should also take these two kinds of tumors into consideration. This is different from the patients above.