Pathoma

Question 1

Rituximab

Answer 1

anti-CD20 antibody that is used to treat sypmtomatic patients with follicular lymphoma

Question 2

What translocation is associated with follicular lymphoma?

Answer 2

t(14;18)

translocates Bcl-2 on chromosome 18 with the gene for the immunoglobulin heavy chain on chromosome 14

Question 3

What is a lymphoma?

Answer 3

neoplastic proliferation of lymphoid cells that forms a mass (the mass can arise in a lymph node, or be extra-nodal).