How does radiotherapy treat lymphoma?

The mortality rate of lymphoma is very high, and many people die from this disease every year. So how does radiotherapy treat lymphoma? This question is also often asked by people. Let the authoritative experts explain the treatment of lymphoma to us.

Treatment of lymphoma generally includes the following:

1. Surgical treatment

In patients with intranodal lymphoma, surgery is mainly used for biopsy and pathology or for staging of partial abdominal exploration. For extranodal 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. Lymphoma originating in the kidney, bladder, testicle, ovary, uterus, skin, breast, etc. should be surgically resected at an early stage, followed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy after surgery. This is the most common treatment for lymphoma.

2. Radiation therapy

(1) Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is also sensitive to radiotherapy, but the recurrence rate is high. If the primary lesion of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is in the tonsils, nasopharynx, or histiocytic type of bone, local radiotherapy can achieve a relatively satisfactory treatment effect for lymphoma.

(2) Hodgkin's lymphoma: Radiotherapy is more effective than that for lymphosarcoma and reticulum cell sarcoma. Important organs are protected during the treatment of lymphoma. Skin reactions are mild and bone marrow suppression may occur.

3. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment

Lymphoma is a systemic disease, which is more in line with the idea of ​​TCM treatment of tumors. TCM treatment of lymphoma belongs to holistic treatment, and its treatment idea is "suppression and support balance" therapy, which means: using TCM tonic drugs to improve one's immunity, supplemented by anti-tumor drugs to achieve the purpose of living with tumors. Delaying survival time improves quality of life.

The above is the explanation given by experts on the treatment of lymphoma. I hope it can help you answer your questions. Experts remind everyone that if you suffer from any disease in your daily life, you must not delay treatment. This is very dangerous. Some diseases will worsen or cause other diseases.