Is lymphoma contagious?

For diseases like lymphoma, only timely detection and timely treatment can reduce unnecessary harm. Many people worry that lymphoma is contagious. Experts explain that lymphoma is not contagious, but diseases like lymphoma require us to actively and correctly treat them in order to be more conducive to rapid relief of the disease. Let's learn about the treatment methods of lymphoma.

1. Surgical treatment For patients with intranodal malignant lymphoma, surgery is mainly used for biopsy and pathology or for staged partial abdominal exploration. For extranodal malignant lymphoma originating in the brain, spinal cord, orbit, salivary gland, thyroid, lung, liver, spleen, etc., surgical resection is often performed first, followed by radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. Malignant lymphoma originating in the kidney, bladder, testicle, ovary, uterus, skin, breast, etc. should be surgically resected at an early stage, followed by chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy after surgery.
2. Radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease: The radiotherapy effect is better than that for lymphosarcoma and reticulum cell sarcoma. The irradiation method is more commonly used with cloak-type or inverted Y-type irradiation field. Generally, about 4000 CGY of tissue is given within 4 weeks. During treatment, important organs are protected, skin reactions are mild, and bone marrow suppression may occur.
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, lymphosarcoma and reticular cell sarcoma: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is also sensitive to radiotherapy, but the recurrence rate is high. Therefore, only clinical stage I and II in the low-grade malignant group and pathological stage I in the moderately malignant group can be treated with radiotherapy alone to expand the field or only the involved field. For non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with primary lesions in the tonsils, nasopharynx or histiocytic type originating from bones, relatively satisfactory long-term remission can be achieved after local radiotherapy.