I am a medical student collaborating with the Royal Hobart Hospital’s (RHH) Haematology Department to study lymphomas. Blood cancer diagnoses are increasing rapidly worldwide, including within Australia. Overweight and obese body mass index (BMI) are also rising steadily across the globe. In 2 studies conducted by our research team in collaboration with the Monash Lymphoma and Related Diseases Registry, we analysed 3602 Australasian patients to explore if having a high BMI affected survival status post-chemotherapy for patients with B-cell lymphomas. Our findings support current management guidelines for high BMI populations and indicate poor clinical outcomes for low BMI populations.
Research keyword: Haematology
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