### condition | illness | disease:

Lupus
* adversely influences the lives of sufferers, the family and their friends.
* affects all races, age groups, socioeconomic groups, and both sexes
  - each individual differently and the effects of the illness range from mild to severe
  - men, women and children of all ages
  - more women than men
* affects people of all ages, races, socioeconomic groups, and both sexes
  - women much more commonly than men
* attacks the body and organs eventually.
* can be difficult to diagnose as the symptoms come and go and mimic many other illnesses
  - the symptoms come and go and mimic other illnesses
  - because it mimics so many other diseases
  - differentiate from other disorders in the early stages of the disease
  - like many other diseases, and as a result is often misdiagnosed
* causes chronic fatigue and muscle and joint pain, as well as headaches and other symptoms
  - inflammation
  - swelling and tissue damage , and can attack any part of the body
* destroys the lives of young women in their child bearing years.
* disrupts the body at cellular level, and remove oxidizing irritants.
* erythematoses Lesions on sun-exposed areas, especially the face, leaving atrophic scars.
* hits women nine times more than men.
* is autoimmune diseases
  - chronic conditions
  - constellations
* is skin diseases
* occurs because something of a malfunction in the immune system
  - mainly in young women, particularly during childbearing years
  - when antibodies attack the healthy cells in the body
* places the fetus at very high risk.
* rashes most commonly occur in the sun-exposed skin.
* strikes nine women to every man, and can be very difficult to diagnose.
* tends to get worse with time and was once even considered to be a fatal disease
  - go through cycles - getting worse, than getting better again
+ Lupus erythematosus: Diseases
  * Lupus erythematosus', also called 'lupus', is a disease. It is chronic, which means it does not go away. The immune system is made up of white blood cells in your body that fight off disease. Lupus makes these white blood cells think that the healthy cells of the body around them are diseased, so they end up attacking healthy parts of the body. Lupus can be deadly. Lupus causes swelling and tissue damage, and can attack any part of the body. There is treatment for lupus, called immunosuppression, which is medicine that stops the white blood cells from damaging healthy cells for a while. After a while, this medicine wears off, and then the white blood cells go back to hurting healthy parts of the body again. For the disease of lupus, there is no cure that stops the white blood cells from attacking healthy parts of the body forever, but doctors are not giving up on finding a cure.

### condition | illness | disease | lupus:

Discoid lupus
* benign, distinctive disc-shaped skin eruption.
* characteristic rash without significant problems.
* disease of the skin, which is often chronic and leads to scarring.
* is neither cancerous nor contagious.
* limited disease with superficial skin involvement only.

Systemic lupus
* can affect almost any organ or system of the body.
* is difficult to diagnose
  - irreversible, whereas drug-induced lupus generally is reversible
  - undoubtedly a potentially serious illness with numerous organ system involvements

Malignancy
* Malignancies are aggressive and survival is usually measured in months from date of discovery
  - can occur in every location within the body
  - develop when
  - grow more rapidly than do benign forms and invade adjacent normal tissues
* Many malignancies can develop in vulvar structures.

### condition | illness | disease | malignancy:

Haematological malignancy
* Haematological malignancies are a particularly heterogeneous group of cancers.
* Many haematological malignancies are curable.