Treatment of lymphoma

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Lymphocytes are the health guards of the human body. They resist the invasion of foreign bacteria and viruses, remove the aging and necrotic cells in the body, and maintain the normal and orderly development of the internal environment. If you have lymphoma, all kinds of immune activities will be affected. Here's how to treat lymphoma.

Treatment of lymphoma

First, the most typical manifestation of lymphoma is painless and progressive swelling of the superficial lymph nodes. The surface is smooth and the texture is tough. It feels like ping-pong or the hardness of the tip of the nose. To the hospital for examination, early diagnosis, timely treatment.

Second: surgical treatment: in patients with intranodal malignant lymphoma, surgery is mainly used for biopsy or staging abdominal exploration. For primary extranodal malignant lymphoma in brain, spinal cord, orbit, salivary gland, thyroid, lung, liver and spleen, surgery is often performed first, followed by radiotherapy and / or chemotherapy. Chemotherapy and / or radiotherapy were used after operation.

Third: adjuvant radiotherapy or chemotherapy: (1) the effect of radiotherapy is better than that of lymphosarcoma and reticular cell sarcoma, and the "Cape" or "inverted" Y "radiation field is widely used; (2) there are many chemotherapy drugs and schemes, which should be comprehensively considered according to clinical stage, lesion location, pathology, age and other factors.

matters needing attention

After the treatment of lymphoma, we should not take it lightly, but still need regular review. After treatment, the risk of recurrence in the first two years is relatively high, and the frequency of reexamination is higher. Reexamination is usually carried out once every 3-4 months, once every half a year after two years, and once every year after five years.