Symptoms of lymphatic cancer

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Lymphatic carcinoma can be divided into Hodgkin's lymphoma and non Hodgkin's lymphoma. In fact, in terms of treatment, lymphatic carcinoma is a relatively good malignant tumor; Non Hodgkin lymphoma accounts for about 90% of all lymphoma cases, and the incidence rate has increased year by year in recent ten years. That got lymphatic cancer can appear what symptom expression? Now let's take a look at this aspect.

Symptoms of lymphatic cancer

The systemic symptoms of lymphatic carcinoma vary greatly with the type of the disease and the period of the disease, and some patients may have no systemic symptoms; Fever, emaciation (weight loss of more than 10%) and night sweats were the most common symptoms, followed by decreased libido, fatigue and itching.

Fever. Most of the fever types were irregular, which could be persistent high fever or intermittent low fever. A few of them had periodic fever. The latter was found in about 1 / 6 of patients with Hodgkin's disease; Hodgkin's disease accounts for about 30% ~ 50% of patients with early fever, but non Hodgkin's lymphoma usually has fever when the lesion is extensive. The feature of the disease is sweating when the fever subsides.

Alcohol pain. About 17% ~ 20% of patients with Hodgkin's disease had pain in the lesion 20 minutes after drinking, and the symptoms were earlier than other symptoms and X-ray findings, which had certain diagnostic significance; When the lesion was relieved, the alcohol pain disappeared and recurred.

matters needing attention

Symptoms of extranodal lesions（ 1) Gastrointestinal tract: anorexia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, abdominal mass, intestinal obstruction and bleeding（ 2) Hepatobiliary: invasion of the liver parenchyma can cause pain in the liver region（ 3) Bone: clinical manifestations include local bone pain and secondary nerve compression symptoms（ 4) Skin: non specific damage, common skin pruritus and prurigo（ 6) Tonsil and mouth, nose, pharynx: lymphoma invasion of mouth, nose, pharynx, clinical dysphagia, nasal obstruction（ 6) Others: lymphoma may invade the pancreas and cause malabsorption syndrome.