What are the methods for treating lymphoma?

I believe everyone has heard of the malignant disease of lymphoma, and everyone knows that cancer cannot be cured. Therefore, many patients give up on themselves after learning about their condition. In fact, this will only aggravate the deterioration of the condition. So what are the treatments for lymphoma? Let's learn about it together.

1. Immunotherapy

For malignant lymphoma, immunotherapy can be used as an adjuvant treatment.

2. Autologous bone marrow transplantation

For patients under 50 years old who can tolerate high-dose radiotherapy and chemotherapy combined with allogeneic or autologous bone marrow transplantation, a longer remission period and disease-free survival can be achieved.

3. Surgical treatment

In patients with intranodal malignant lymphoma, surgery is mainly used for biopsy for pathology or for staged laparotomy. 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.

In addition, experts remind that malignant lymphoma originating from the kidneys, bladder, testicles, ovaries, uterus, skin, breasts, etc. should be surgically removed at an early stage, followed by chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.

4. Radiation therapy

(1) Hodgkin's disease: The radiotherapy effect is better than that of lymphosarcoma and reticulum cell sarcoma. The irradiation method is more commonly used with "cloak-type" or inverted "Y" irradiation field. Generally, about 4000 cGy is given to the tissue within 4 weeks. During treatment, important organs are protected, skin reactions are mild, and bone marrow suppression may occur.

(2) 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 malignancy group and pathological stage I in the moderate-grade malignancy 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.

The above four aspects have introduced the treatment methods of lymphoma in detail. I believe that after reading this article, you should have a clearer understanding of the treatment methods of the disease. No matter what disease the patient has, as long as he can maintain an optimistic mood and build confidence, he can overcome the disease.