Open AccessClinical profile and outcomes of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in children: A report from a tertiary care hospital from India
Author(s) -
Jagdish Prasad Meena,
Aditya Gupta,
Mansingh Parihar,
Rachna Seth
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of medical and paediatric oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 0975-2129
pISSN - 0971-5851
DOI - 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_70_18
Subject(s) - medicine , lymphoma , abdominal distension , lymphoblastic lymphoma , anaplastic large cell lymphoma , stage (stratigraphy) , malignancy , non hodgkin's lymphoma , presentation (obstetrics) , pediatrics , cohort , disease , surgery , immunology , paleontology , immune system , t cell , biology
Background: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is an aggressive malignancy. Its outcome has improved over the past decades. Although it accounts for 8%–10% of all childhood cancers, very less information about its clinical presentation and outcomes is available from India. Our objective was to study the clinical presentation and outcomes in children ( 10 years was poor. The outcome of NHL was comparable to that of other centers in the world.