Treatment strategies and outcome in relapsed peripheral T-cell lymphoma: results from the Netherlands Cancer Registry.

Optimal treatment in patients with refractory or relapsed peripheral T-cell lymphomas (R/R T-NHLs) is unknown. In this population-based study, outcomes in R/R peripheral T-cell lymphoma not otherwise specified (PTCL NOS), angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), and anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive (ALK+) and ALK-negative (ALK-) anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) were evaluated. Patients with PTCL NOS, AITL, ALK+ ALCL, and ALK- ALCL (≥18 years) diagnosed in 2014 to 2019 were identified using the Netherlands Cancer Registry.

A population-based study of transformed marginal zone lymphoma: identifying outcome-related characteristics.

Histological transformation of marginal zone lymphoma (tMZL) into diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is associated with poor outcomes. Clinical characteristics associated with transformation risk and outcome after transformation are largely unknown due to scarcity of data. In this population-based study, competing risk analyses were performed to elucidate clinical characteristics associated with developing transformation among 1793 MZL patients using the Netherlands Cancer Registry.

[Taste and smell changes resulting from cancer therapies].

Cancer therapies often cause changes in taste and smell. In this article, three patients treated with immunotherapy, chemotherapy and targeted therapy who experience changes in taste or smell are presented. These patients report lower quality of life and altered eating habits due to these changes.

[Reflections on health care: hypes as a valve mechanism of the health care system].

Physicians and other health care workers sometimes face thoughts and systems that are utterly strange to them. This articles argues that 'medical hypes' deserve to be taken seriously, because they contribute to keeping the health care system and society at large vital.

Leprosy and the Colonial Gaze: Comparing the Dutch West and East Indies, 1750-1950.

This article is looking at colonial governance with regard to leprosy, comparing two settings of the Dutch colonial empire: Suriname and the Dutch East Indies. Whereas segregation became formal policy in Suriname, leprosy sufferers were hardly ever segregated in the Dutch East Indies. We argue that the perceived needs to maintain a healthy labour force and to prevent contamination of white populations were the driving forces behind the difference in response to the disease.