How long can you live after chemotherapy for lymphoma

When a patient receives the news that he or she has lymphoma, his or her first reaction may be, what is lymphoma? What is the connection between the lymphoma and the future life span? These are also the issues that patients and friends are more concerned about. Today, we will explain them in detail for you.

How long can a patient with early lymphoma live? Many citizens' misunderstanding of cancer often leads them to equate cancer with a terminal illness, and lymphoma is no exception. Experts point out: "Lymphoma is not a terminal illness. Advances in medical research have made lymphoma out of the ranks of terminal illnesses." Generally speaking, the concept of "cure" of a tumor is related to the "5-year disease-free survival rate." Long-term observations have found that if a cancer patient has spent the fifth year smoothly after completing treatment, he or she can be considered cured. "Although there is still a large gap in the treatment effects of different subtypes of lymphoma, the overall efficacy has been greatly improved, and it has become one of the best-treated malignant tumors among the few curable cancers."

According to reports, the main treatments for lymphoma include immunotherapy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. At present, chemotherapy is still the first choice for most lymphoma patients. Experts point out that if 3 to 5 chemical drugs are used in combination therapy at the same time, immunochemotherapy is currently the preferred first-line treatment in the medical community. A large amount of clinical research data shows that early lymphoma patients use immunochemotherapy represented by monoclonal antibody rituximab drugs during initial treatment.

"The early clinical symptoms of lymphoma are very hidden and difficult to detect. Many patients will confuse symptoms such as fever with colds. Therefore, many patients, like Luo Jing, are diagnosed in the late stage." Experts said that lymphoma is mostly discovered by patients who accidentally touch swollen lymph nodes. In the early stage, it is often painless. More than 60% of patients first find that their neck lymph nodes are swollen. At first, only one swelling begins, and then the number and size gradually increase. Later, the axillary and groin lymph nodes will also swell.

In today's article, we focus on introducing some issues that patients are more concerned about in the early stages of lymphoma. In the article, we also mention some treatment methods for lymphoma. Although the current treatment level is not very perfect, friends still cannot give up.