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Leukemias Flashcards

1
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what is the Greek for Leukos?

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White and lymphomas

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What is Maturation arrest?

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You don’t grow up and stop a a certain place

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What are the 2 things you need for leukemias?

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Maturations arrest and duplication

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What happens when bone marrow gets replaced?

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Plugs up the pathway to produce normal cell elements

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What stage does leukemias occur at?

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Early stage is a blast, later on like bone marrow or blood or tissues (chronic lymphocytic leukemias)

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Leukemias vs lymphoma

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80 -85 % are B cell origins
Leukemias - grows in the bone marrows, marrow replacement ( anemia, infections and bleeding)
Lymphomas - painless masses ( always will we lymphocytes)

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What is acute/chronic or lymphoid or myeloid leukemias?

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Game of 4 square
Lymphoblastic or myeloid leukemia
Acute or chronic

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What is Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia?

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70% of child leukemias
Get in blood and get into other organs

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Lymphoblasts in the blood on the left
Bone marrow is filled with lymphoblast no balance on the right

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What is Chronic lymphocytic leukemia?

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Close to be normal lymphocytes
Grow very slowly
Small lymphocytic lymphoma
Live long time with it

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Small mature lymphocyte and way to many in blood and bone marrow

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What is Acute Myeloblastic leukemia?

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Usually in older pt
WBC >100K

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E

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Cant tell just by looking but you can tell by stain that it is acute Myeloblastic leukemia

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What is Chronic myeloid leukemia? Cells type? Age group?

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Older people
WBC 170K
The cells are almost all mature and see a gradient of maturation only in chronic

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What happens in Chronic Myeloproliferative disorders?

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You mature cells keep replicating and replace all you blood cells and you get anemia

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What is Hodgkin’s Lymphoma? Cell?

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Reed sternberg cell hall mark
Started in 1 lymph then orderly spread

17
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Reed-Sternberg cell for Hodgkin’s disease ( the big thing in the middle)

18
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What is Follicular Lymphomas

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40%
Mainly in older pts
Translocation of bcL-2 causes cell stay alive instead of apoptosis and build up
7-9 years living

19
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Follicular lymphoma

20
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What is small lymphocytes lymphoma?

21
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What is large B-cell lymphoma?

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Highly aggressive and actively replicating
Chemo target the active replication
Unlike low grade and stage this can be cured

22
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Malignant B cell lymphocytes

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