How long can you live with lymphoma on the neck

Many people know that lymphoma is a malignant tumor, so many people will ask this question after finding out that they have lymphoma: how long can you live with lymphoma on your neck? From this question we can see that the harm of lymphoma, a malignant tumor, is quite large. Let us let an expert in tumors talk about this issue for you.

Lymph node enlargement is the characteristic of this disease. Painless, progressive enlargement of superficial lymph nodes is often the first manifestation, especially in the cervical lymph nodes, followed by the axilla, and less often in the groin or trochlear. Hodgkin's disease first manifests in the cervical lymph nodes in 60 to 80 percent of cases, with the left more often than the right. Supraclavicular lymph node enlargement indicates that the lesion has spread, with the right side coming from the mediastinum or both lungs and the left side often coming from the retroperitoneum.

Clinically, the symptoms of advanced malignant lymphoma mainly include the following:

1. Skin itching: This is a more specific manifestation of Hodgkin's disease. Focal itching occurs in the area of ​​lymphatic drainage of the lesion, and systemic itching mostly occurs in cases with lesions in the mediastinum or abdomen.

2. Fever: Fever is often irregular, and can be continuous high fever, or intermittent low fever. A few have periodic fever, which is seen in about 1/6 of Hodgkin's disease patients. Early fever accounts for about 30% to 50% of Hodgkin's disease, but non-Hodgkin's disease usually occurs when the lesions are more extensive. Profuse sweating when the fever subsides can be a characteristic of this disease.

3. Alcohol pain: About 17 to 20 percent of Hodgkin's disease patients experience pain in the lesion 20 minutes after drinking. The symptoms may appear earlier than other symptoms and X-ray manifestations, and have a certain diagnostic significance. When the lesion is relieved, the alcohol pain disappears immediately, and it worsens when it recurs.

A single treatment method cannot achieve comprehensive and effective treatment of tumors. For example, after a single surgical treatment, the patient's physical condition is poor, and it is difficult to completely eliminate hidden tumor cells; with a single radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the patient's immune system will be almost completely destroyed. Although the tumor growth of some patients is controlled, new tumors are generated due to low immunity, and due to the huge side effects, many patients are even unwilling to undergo radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, clinical tumor treatment has been exploring a green, safer and more effective tumor treatment method. The research and development progress of tumor biotherapy technology has given life scientists hope.

The treatment of advanced malignant lymphoma depends on the patient's physical condition. For patients in the advanced stage, chemotherapy can relieve symptoms. However, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have great toxic side effects. During the treatment process, patients are very painful. Moreover, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are difficult to completely cure tumors. At present, biological treatment is mostly used clinically for advanced malignant lymphoma. CLS immunotherapy, as a treatment for advanced malignant lymphoma, can enhance the treatment effect, increase white blood cells, prevent recurrence and metastasis, reduce the harm caused to patients by the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and improve the quality of life.

It can be seen that the survival time of different lymphoma patients is different. If everyone pays attention to treatment and the treatment is started earlier, the survival time will be earlier. If the cancer cells have already spread to other parts when they are discovered, it is hard to say, but it is certain that these patients will not escape death after all, and such tragedy is currently unavoidable.