Template:ICD10 Guideline leukemia vs lymphoma

This template is used to make sure there are consistent instructions in the leukemia and lymphoma pages.

Lymphoma codes:

Hodgkin's lymphoma (Hodgkin's disease) Lymphoma, NOS Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma T-cell lymphoma

Template:Discussion Tina still needs to add the template call to all of these.

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Leukemia vs Lymphoma

Any lymphoma may have a leukemic phase where the abnormal clonal cells appear in the circulation. Though this is sometimes referred to as a "leukemia", even by some oncologists, that is technically incorrect and ICD10 considers them to be lymphomas. This applies to essentially ALL so-called B-cell leukemias, which are actually lymphomas. It also applies to "NK-cell leukemia" which is also a lymphoma

As such, the following "leukemias" should be coded as follows:

could you make sure that none of the leukemias linked below are a synonym for one of the following? If they are not, please take out the discussion, if they are, please move the page as a link to the "excludes" above. AG REPLY --- all of the B cell "leukemias" as well as NK-cell "leukemia" aren't leukemias. They're lymphomas which may [like any lymphoma] have a leukemic phase where the tumor cells appear in the circulation. But it's technically incorrect to call them leukemias. OK, so when a collector sees these below in a chart, which Category:Lymphoma should they be included with? Lymphoma, NOS? They really should be added to the relevant pages as "includes" and not listed in this template, but I moved them here for now to get them out of their various other locations.

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• B-cell leukemia-B-cell leukemia describes several different types of lymphoid leukemia which affect B cells.
  • Types of B cell leukemia include:
    • B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia
    • Precursor B cell lymphoblastic leukemia
    • Acute Lymphoblastic leukemia, mature B cell type
    • B cell prolymphocytic leukemia

• NK-cell leukemia-Natural killer (NK) cells are a type of lymphocyte (called large granular lymphocytes) that attacks foreign cells.
  • Aggressive NK-cell leukemia (also called aggressive NK-cell lymphoma, or ANKL), is a very rare type of NHL. The body makes large numbers of NK cells that are larger than normal. It is grouped with T-cell lymphomas.
  • There is a very rare slow-growing (indolent) type of NK-cell leukemia that has a more favorable prognosis. It is called chronic NK-cell leukemia and is treated like T-cell large granular lymphocytic leukemia.
• The most common type of lymphoid leukemia is B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.