Primary Brain Lymphomas

Sign/Symptoms
Behaviour: Personality Changes Eye: Vision Impairment Headache (Cephalgia) Mind: Confusion Mind: Hallucination Seizures Skin Tingling Or Numbness (Paresthesias) Speech Articulation Problem (Dysarthria) Speech Slow Speech Slurred Weakness

Drugs
Allopurinol Cortisone

Treatments
Surgery Resection Medical Procedure Radiation Treatment Supportive Treatment Medical Therapy Resection Weakly in Favour Low Evidence

Attributes

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Further Tests
Alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP, Serum AFP, Blood) Alpha-Fetoprotein (Non-Pregnant, Serum) (Increased) Blood Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) Test Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (Blood hCG) (Increased) Calcium Concentration (Blood, Total) Calcium (Blood, Total) (Increased) Cerebrospinal Fluid Lactic Acid Concentration (L-Lactate) Lactic Acid (Cerebrospinal Fluid, L-Lactate) (Increased) Creatine Kinase Concentration Creatine Kinase1 (CK-BB) Isoenzyme (Increased) Fetal Hemoglobin (Hemoglobin F, HbF) Concentration Fetal Hemoglobin (Hemoglobin F, HbF) (Increased) Heamatocrit (Hct) RBC Mass (Decreased) Hemoglobin (Hb) Concentration Hemoglobin (Hb) (Decreased) Lymphocyte Immunophenotyping B Cells (CD19 Percentage) (Decreased) Phosphate Concentration (PO4, Phosphorus) Phosphate (PO4, Phosphorus, P) (Increased) Platelet Count Platelets (Increased) Protein Electrophoresis (Blood, Serum Protein) Beta Globulin (Decreased) Red Blood Cell (RBC) Count Red Blood Cells (RBC) (Decreased) Urine B2 Microglobulin Concentration Urine B2 Microglobulin (Increased) Urine glucose concentration Urine glucose (Increased)

Efficacy of Alternative and Other Treatments According to GRADE* Ranking:

Red Clover (Trifolium Pratense) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]:

Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It may mildly help with some of the symptoms, and even then has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present.

Recommendation: no recommendation (There is insufficient evidence to support claims that Red Clover helps to treat lymphomas)

Grade of Evidence: very low quality of evidence

* www.gradeworkinggroup.org

Summary References

Treatments:

1. Ades T, Alteri R, Gansler T, Yeargin P, "Complete Guide to Complimentary & Alternative Cancer Therapies", American Cancer Society, Atlanta USA, 2009

2. http://nccam.nih.gov/health/redclover/

3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19609225

4. http://www.babyhopes.com/articles/natural-fertility-boosters.html

5. http://indigo-herbs.co.uk/acatalog/Red_Clover_Flowers_Info.html

6. http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/trifolium_pratense.html

7. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/red-clover

8. http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69350.cfm

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