Dr Richard writes…
here you see a sad little Tom with a Burkitts Lymphoma behind his left eyeball. As you can imagine he was in so much pain and cried and cried.
You can see him above with Dennis and Maria our fabulous Chemotherapy nurse (and Dr Hamza our excellent oncology doctor).
Burkitts is largely an African lymph gland cancer. We see Hodgkins lymphoma in UK but rarely Burkitts. It is curable with chemotherapy and here you see a smiley Tom after 2 of his 6 course of chemotherapy.
Burkitts is the commonest cancer of children in equatorial Africa. Interestingly it is linked to the glandular fever virus…Ebstein Barr virus and chronic malaria infection in these children may reduce immunity to the EB virus so that it cause this cancer.
Although Dennis had a biopsy which suggested another cancer it would not surprise me if he has Burkitts which looks very similar under the microscope.
