What causes swollen and painful clavicle?

Nowadays, many people feel pain in the clavicle from time to time. The clavicle is a bone joint, that is, the bone part of the depression on both sides of the neck. If there are symptoms of swelling and pain in this area, everyone should be careful, it may be related to lymphoma. Long-term pain in this place may be due to the appearance of some small lymphomas around the bones. There are many treatment methods that everyone needs to choose from. Before treatment, we also need to understand some of the factors and what exactly causes lymphoma.

"The early clinical symptoms of lymphoma are very hidden and difficult to detect. Many times, patients confuse symptoms such as fever with colds. Therefore, many patients, like Luo Jing, are diagnosed in the late stages." Experts from the Anti-Cancer Health Network said that in most cases, lymphoma is discovered when patients accidentally touch swollen lymph nodes, which are often painless and itchy in the early stages. More than 60% of patients first discovered that they had swollen lymph nodes in their necks. At first, only a single node was swollen, but then the number and size of the nodes gradually increased. Subsequently, the axillary and groin lymph nodes will also swell.

"When the disease reaches a certain stage, patients will have symptoms such as fever, sudden weight loss, and abnormal weight loss. If the weight does not change much in normal times and the diet does not change, but the patient loses more than 20% of the original weight in a short period of time, it may indicate lymphoma."

However, experts also reminded that the above symptoms can only be provided to citizens as self-examination information, and the diagnosis must still rely on CT and other means. "But after all, general routine physical examinations only include B-ultrasound at most, and many units do not even have B-ultrasound during physical examinations, so regular annual examinations may not necessarily detect lymphoma in time."

Early treatment of lymphoma mainly relies on radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and Chinese medicine auxiliary treatment cannot be ignored

"Early stage treatment of lymphoma usually does not require surgery and mainly relies on chemotherapy or radiotherapy. In recent years, targeted therapy with monoclonal antibodies has been used for certain types of lymphoma, which can significantly improve the treatment effect. For patients in the middle and late stages, the intensity of chemotherapy can be increased and subsequent stem cell transplantation can be used to increase the tumor cell killing rate and the success rate of disease treatment." said the expert.

Significant therapeutic effects have been achieved for lymphoma, especially Hodgkin's disease. The effect for non-Hodgkin's disease is relatively poor, but with reasonable treatment, survival period can be prolonged. The most ideal measure is radiotherapy + chemotherapy. Radiotherapy followed by chemotherapy or chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy can further improve the efficacy, reduce recurrence and increase the survival rate. The overall ten-year survival rate of Hodgkin's disease has increased to over 50%, and most of them have been cured, which is a very gratifying achievement in modern tumor treatment.