What is non Hodgkin's lymphoma

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Human immune system mainly includes the lymphoid tissue of digestive tract and the lymphoid tissue of bone marrow. When these lymphoid tissues appear malignant proliferation, non Hodgkin's lymphoma can appear. This disease is caused by the proliferation of lymphoid cells. The course of the disease varies, generally speaking, in the early stage of the disease when the symptoms are not particularly obvious, so the early stage of the disease is easy to be ignored. After the onset of the disease, even if the course is in the early stage, it can quickly lead to death. Here's what non Hodgkin's lymphoma is.

What is non Hodgkin's lymphoma

First: the typical manifestation of non Hodgkin's lymphoma is lymph node enlargement, which will not make the patient feel pain, and the enlarged lymph node texture is relatively hard, which can be pushed by hand. In patients with non Hodgkin's lymphoma, the enlarged lymph nodes do not adhere in the early stage, but if they develop to the late stage, the enlarged lymph nodes can fuse with each other. Step 1

Second: non Hodgkin's lymphoma is usually caused by the enlargement of lymph nodes located in the superficial lymph nodes, cervical lymph node enlargement is the most common, followed by inguinal and axillary lymph nodes may also occur enlargement. Enlarged lymph nodes can occur singly or sometimes multiple at the same time.

Third: in addition to lymph node enlargement, non Hodgkin's lymphoma may also lead to body fever. This kind of body fever is mostly irregular. The temperature of fever is generally between 38 ℃ and 39 ℃. Sometimes patients can present persistent high fever, sometimes intermittent body fever. Periodic body fever is relatively rare.

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Patients with NHL tend to lose weight and sweat at night. More than 25% of non Hodgkin's lymphoma patients will have gastrointestinal symptoms, the main performance is abdominal pain and low appetite, sometimes diarrhea and abdominal distension.