any mnemonics for leukemias the NHL or AML leukemias?

[westernmed007]

Anyone have any mnemonics? These things are so hard to memorize and first aid has so little on them... so frustrating to get the translocations down too...

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[Blesbok]

Burkitt hates Cing MYCe

This one is stupid, but for some reason I remember it. PML is shorter than follicular lymphoma and therefore its tranlocation is t(15;17) where follicular lymphoma is t(14;18).

 

[PrussianBlue1]

Anyone have any mnemonics? These things are so hard to memorize and first aid has so little on them... so frustrating to get the translocations down too...

Everytime a doctor asks me about one of them I kinda get an absence seizure.... I am working on Mnemonics, but I have tests next week so it might take a while..... I wonder if there is someway I can tag this message or something....

Right Now I have: heme synthesis, and Leukemia Classifications & Treatments as something were memory aids are needed.

 

[docmd2010]

I have my own wierd way of learning these, but maybe this will help you:

Burkitt's (8,14) The 8 kinda looks like a B

CML (9,22) I just know this one, and so do you.

Follicular (14,18) FO-llicular souds like FORteen

AML (15,17) -M3, 3 is a multiple of 15


Hopefullly that helps someone out there.

 

[mercaptovizadeh]

I have my own wierd way of learning these, but maybe this will help you:

Burkitt's (8,14) The 8 kinda looks like a B

CML (9,22) I just know this one, and so do you.

Follicular (14,18) FO-llicular souds like FORteen

AML (15,17) -M3, 3 is a multiple of 15


Hopefullly that helps someone out there.

Coincidentally, I used the EXACT same thinking (8 looks like B and 14 starts like Follicular). Also, don't forget mantle cell is 11:14 and 11:22 for Ewing's (I know, not a real one).

Apparently, papillary thyroid cancer has a retTC translocation.

 

[DragonWell]

Everytime a doctor asks me about one of them I kinda get an absence seizure.... I am working on Mnemonics, but I have tests next week so it might take a while..... I wonder if there is someway I can tag this message or something....

Right Now I have: heme synthesis, and Leukemia Classifications & Treatments as something were memory aids are needed.

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[Clemson Doc]

Ewing's: Remember that Patrick Ewing (former NBA star for the New York Knicks) averaged 22 points and 11 rebounds a game. It's usually in kids, so imagine a kid looking at a Patrick Ewing trading card of him with his stats (11:22) on the back.

Follicular: aside from the t(14:18), it's important to know that it is associated with bcl-2 (I got this question on USMLEWorld today). We all know that bcl-2 is anti-apoptotic, and follicular makes me think of a hair follicle that keeps growing and growing because it can't be cut.

Silly, but perhaps they will help someone...

 

[chicklett1]

Remember that the lymphomas have a 14 in the translocation (Burkitt's, Follicular, mantle cell).

Mantle cell has an 11, which is like two candles on a fireplace mantle (ok, that's a stretch).

 

[dryphi]

Sorry about dragging up an old post. I was googling for Leukemia mnemonics and just had to chime in here.

Ewing's: Remember that Patrick Ewing (former NBA star for the New York Knicks) averaged 22 points and 11 rebounds a game. It's usually in kids, so imagine a kid looking at a Patrick Ewing trading card of him with his stats (11:22) on the back.

Patrick Ewing was number 33, and 11+22 = 33
As Goljan would say, "remember one and the other one's the other one". In this case, mantle cell.
I like the mantle idea above. So we have 1114 which looks like three candles and "four" = "fire".
Works for me.

I have my own wierd way of learning these, but maybe this will help you:

Burkitt's (8,14) The 8 kinda looks like a B

CML (9,22) I just know this one, and so do you.

Follicular (14,18) FO-llicular souds like FORteen

AML (15,17) -M3, 3 is a multiple of 15


Hopefullly that helps someone out there.

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You know what I've realized? It doesn't matter how stupid or silly or mundane the mnemonic is. The point is to just HAVE a mnemonic. I'm convinced its an anxiety thing, like your brain can recall the information more easily if you're confident you remember it. The mnemonics are, therefore, partially just a tool to help convince yourself that you can remember all this stuff.

 

[tco]

FOLLICULAR = FOURTEEN t(14;18)
Mantle - I picture two 1's as the outside legs of the M. t(11;14)
Burkitt - B=8 t(8;14)
As many have said --> Ewing 11 + 22 = 33, which was Patrick Ewing's number.
What else are you having trouble with?

 

[Drn99]

Ewings like eleven
Matle like mantlle 11


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[gofish6060]

·Man(D1)e cell: 11:14 translocation (With some imagination “M” could look like a sideways “5” that fell to the left...)

• 5 = 1+4; for 11:14, and just imagine a "1" in front of both
  
• “manD1e cell” – cycline "D1"