How long can you live with malignant lymphoma and how to treat it

How long can you live with malignant lymphoma? How to treat it?

Lymphoma is a malignant tumor originating from the lymphatic hematopoietic system, which is mainly manifested by painless lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, and all tissues and organs of the body may be affected, accompanied by systemic symptoms such as fever, night sweats, weight loss, and itching. Malignant lymphoma is a large class of tumors with considerable heterogeneity. Although it is prone to occur in lymph nodes, due to the distribution characteristics of the lymphatic system, lymphoma is a systemic disease that can invade almost any tissue and organ in the body.

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to this question. How long a patient with malignant lymphoma can live depends on many factors, including the patient's age, physical condition, mentality, the pathological stage of the cancer, whether there is metastasis, and the effectiveness of surgery. As long as the risk of recurrence is successfully controlled and a positive and optimistic attitude is maintained, it will help extend the survival of patients with malignant lymphoma.

The main types of treatment for lymphoma are:

1. Surgical treatment: For patients with intranodal lymphoma, surgery is mainly used for biopsy and pathology or for staged 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.

2. Some types of lymphoma can be treated with radiotherapy alone in the early stages. Radiotherapy can also be used as consolidation therapy after chemotherapy and as an adjuvant therapy during transplantation.

3. Treatment with Chinese medicine: Lymphoma is a systemic disease, which is more in line with the idea of ​​Chinese medicine for treating tumors. The method of Chinese medicine for treating tumors belongs to holistic treatment, and its treatment idea is "suppression and support balance" therapy, which is explained as: using Chinese medicine to strengthen the body's immunity, supplemented by anti-tumor drugs to achieve the purpose of living with tumors. Delaying survival time improves quality of life.