Raja Kummoona
Emeritus Professor of Craniofacial Surgery, Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations, Baghdad, Iraq
*Corresponding Author: Raja Kummoona, Emeritus Professor of Craniofacial Surgery, Iraqi Board for Medical Specializations, Baghdad, Iraq.
Received: October 28, 2025; Published: February 26, 2025
Cancer a dreadful, miserable and disastrous disease, usually lethal disease to children. Most of our cases were expecting death during discovery in the early seventy of the last centuries.
Kummoona jaw lymphoma is a particular clinical-pathological entity affecting children between the ages of 2-8 years, mean (5 years). Twenty-nine cases were reported,17male and 12 females.
It is a rapid growth, tumors associated with high temperature, anemia with high ESR. Patients look very ill and toxic. Patients passes through series of depilating status.
These types of cancer usually affecting the low socioeconomic groups of people.
Pathogenesis of the disease, tumors developed in the odontogenic tissue in the cancellous bones of children jaws by oncogenic virus.
The virus does not belong to EBV of Burkitt’s Lymphoma but by herps like virus invasion. The majority of our patients died and only 3 children survived of Stage I and stage II with death rates 93.3%.
Tumors presented as rapid growth; the tumors with fleshy and friable tissues with bleeding tendency and showed bleeding spots on surface of mucosa with floating teeth.
Keywords: Kummoona; Jaw; Lymphoma; Pathogenesis; Therapy
Citation: Raja Kummoona. “Kummoona Jaw Lymphoma, Pathogenesis and Therapy”.Acta Scientific Cancer Biology 9.1 (2025): 23-25.
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