What are you stitching this summer?

My Dad is considered "cured" after getting it at 70+, but a kid nearby died in a few weeks. I have wondered if non-Hodgkins is a catchall phrase used for multiple types.

Cheryl

I like that. I might have to go looking for those issues, I know some one that would love those charts.

Cheryl

Take a look here and you will see the differences.

Love that design!

I've just been sidetracked from my big projects. A friend who subscribes to the BritStitch magazines sends me stacks of them once a year - actually two stacks: one stack I can keep/pass on, and the other she wants returned. So for a couple of weeks I indulge in a new magazine every night! Then I pass them along to another friend.

In this stack I found a series of charts for "postcards" from Europe, and I'm stitching two Norwegian flags to make into ornaments. My mom and brother are going to Norway later this summer to visit some cousins with whom Mom has corresponded, but never actually met. So this is a jump on holiday gifts - I'll give one to each of them (mom and bro) as a commemoration of their trip. (I made a quilted runner for the cousin.)

Also found a "photo" chart of Marilyn Monroe, done in sepia-type tones. Usually I don't go for celeb photo charts, but MM is far more than a celeb - she's an icon. This will be a surprise gift for DD, either as an ornament, or the lid of a fabric box, largely depending on whether I can find appropriate fabric for the box. Maybe a silk fabric in a coordinating beige-ish color? Or go with something glitzy/spangly?

Sue

There are indeed many kinds of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. They could be T- cell lymphomas or B-cell lymphomas, and many sub-types in each depending on the cell lineage. Some of these are fast-growing and some slow-growing, and they may all metastasise, which adds to how one describes the stage of the cancer, ie, how advanced it is.

-Shanti.

I just find myself wondering why lump them all together?

Cheryl

They're not, really. They're all a type of cancer called lymphoma (as opposed to other kinds of cancer) and they're not Hodgkin's lymphoma (which has a treatment method all its own). There is no *one* treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphomas, so there's no medical accuracy lost by lumping them all together.

I suppose that it might be clearer if they were called "lymphoma, non-Hodgkins", but qualifiers tend to stay with nouns better if they're in front of them.

jenn

-- Jenn Ridley : snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com WIP: Poppies (Art-Stitch), two knitted tops, Oriental Butterfly Most recently Finished: Floral Sampler, Insect Sampler

IIRC, non-Hodgkins means cancer of the lymph but not like it is with Hodgkins. Not sure what Hodgkins type is but my mom had non-Hodgkins Lynphoma and died within about 1 1/2 yrs just before her 75th b-day. One thing I DO know is that if your "lumps" stay in one quadrant (like above waist on left only or below waist on left, etc.) there is a VERY good cure rate because the lumps can be removed. Once the lymphoma crosses the body, either from left to right or top to bottom, you are pretty much not expected to have any sort of cure. My mom had a lump in the groin on the right, got scared, didn't go to the Dr. until it was the size of a baseball and learned that she also had small lumps in her armpit lymph on the left side. Dr. gave her a 1 to 2 year survival expectation BECAUSE she had waited and didn't have the first lump removed as soon as she found it! The moral of the story is that you don't KNOW how bad you are until you find out. Ignoring it and hoping it will go away is almost NEVER a good idea!!! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Is there any sort of lymph in the brain? I mean, non or not, Hodgkins is lymphoma which is some sort of cancer of the lymphatic system. I don't know enough about the brain to know if there is lymph stuff up there or not! I think when the Dr. told my momo about the whole quadrant thing I'm sure he meant from the neck down and specifically the groin and armpit/chest area. CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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I just finished a free tulip pattern I received with Cross Stitcher magazine (UK) for my mother and a sweet little tooth fairy box for my daughter (it's a box with a open top for the cross stitch and the pattern is done on the DMC pink striped aida with a little fairy and my daughter's name on it).

I am about half way through a zodiac piece also out of the above magazine which is a little doll dressed in yellow (it's for virgo). It's very cute and will go to my sister who is a virgo.

I am also working on a WIP which is a Mr. Men alphabet sampler also for my daughter. I have quite a bit of work to do on that but you know how it is when you just need a break from a piece.

Happy Stitching!

Stef x

Well it seems like months since I was doing any needlework. However, I dragged out a computer generated chart and a piece that I started a year ago - Jrdin de bagatelle.

I've been working on it for 2 weeks now, and have done 2 rows. Definitely not a 'fast' piece. I'll be lucky if I finish it by age

2. Haven't really done anything else. I'm thinking of making some necklaces. I might start another cardigan. Dora

Sorry I've been offline for the past week or so; the power supply to our lightbox gave out on Monday and I've just come back online. Well, lymphoma is primarily cancer of the lymph nodes. Hodgkin's lymphoma is easy to identify under a microscope due to the presence of a "Hodgkin's body" in the affected cells. It is also more easily treatable by chemotherapy. In fact, in something like 80% of the cases, the patient goes into remission for many years. The non- Hodgkin's kind is so called, because it is not immediately identified, and the cells have to be cultured before they can determine what kind it is. As I said before, depending on the lineage of the cells, it could be T-cell or B-cell lymphoma. That is the broad classification, and they are further classified depending on the specific tissue involved. As for your question about lymphoma of the brain, well, it is usually due to metastasising tumours, i.e., secondary tumours usually caused by rogue lymphoma cells getting into the central nervous system. Primary tumours in the CNS are known to occur, but so far as I know, the cause is not very well established.

It's just that I'm a research biologist, and I know about these things. If it's too much information, I will desist.

-Shanti

I think a lot of us will agree that there's no such thing as "too much information." When we stop learning, we stop...............

Best and shortest answer I've ever gotten. I like it.