What is malignant lymphoma and how to treat it

What is malignant lymphoma? How to treat it?

1. The main symptom of malignant lymphoma is the swollen lymph nodes felt on the body. In the early stage, they are painless and itchy, so they are often ignored. About 60% of lymphomas are first found in the swollen lymph nodes in the neck. At the beginning, only one is swollen, but gradually the number increases and the swelling becomes larger. Lymphoma can occur in lymphatic tissues throughout the body, such as the chin, mandible, front neck, supraclavicular, armpit, groin, mediastinum or abdominal artery, and sometimes it occurs in internal organs and causes compression symptoms.

2. If it occurs in the stomach, small intestine or large intestine, there may be symptoms of peptic ulcer or gastrointestinal dysfunction such as abdominal distension, bloody stool, vomiting, abdominal pain, etc.; if lymphoma invades the bone marrow, it may cause pancytopenia such as pale complexion, fever, abnormal bleeding, and sometimes abnormal lymphocytes can be seen in the peripheral blood.

3. For the treatment of malignant lymphoma, you can try surgical treatment. This is the most common treatment for lymphoma. In patients with intranodal lymphoma, surgery is mainly used for biopsy pathology or for staging abdominal exploration.

4. For extranodal lymphoma originating in the brain, spinal cord, orbit, salivary gland, thyroid, lung, liver, spleen, etc., surgical resection is usually performed first, followed by radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. For lymphoma originating in the kidney, bladder, testicle, ovary, uterus, skin, breast, etc., early surgical resection is recommended, followed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy.