Three major manifestations of early symptoms of lymphoma

In the early stage of lymphoma, you can feel swollen lymph nodes on the body. They are painless and do not itch, so they are often ignored. In fact, this is the early symptom of lymphoma. Due to the different invasion sites and ranges of lymphoma cells, the clinical manifestations are very different. Let's learn about the early symptoms of lymphoma .

Local manifestations: (1) Lymph node enlargement: including superficial and deep lymph nodes, which are characterized by progressive, painless, hard, and movable enlargement of lymph nodes. In the early stage, they are not adhered to each other, but in the late stage, they may fuse. Anti-inflammatory and anti-tuberculosis treatments are ineffective. Superficial lymph nodes are most common in the neck, followed by the axilla and the ventral groin. Deep lymph nodes are most common in the mediastinum and beside the abdominal aorta. (2) Local compression symptoms caused by lymph node enlargement: mainly refers to deep lymph nodes, such as enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes, which can compress the esophagus and cause dysphagia; compress the superior vena cava and cause superior vena cava syndrome; compress the trachea and cause coughing, chest tightness, dyspnea and cyanosis. This is one of the early symptoms of lymphoma.

Systemic symptoms: (1) Fever: The fever pattern is often irregular, ranging from 38 to 39 degrees Celsius for many years. Some patients may have a continuous high fever, or intermittent low fever, and a few may have periodic fever. (2) Weight loss: Most patients experience weight loss, losing more than 10% of their original body weight within 6 months. (3) Night sweats: Sweating at night or after falling asleep.

Extranodal lesions: Lymphomas can occur in lymphatic tissues throughout the body, such as the chin, jaw, front neck, supraclavicular, axilla, groin, mediastinum, or abdominal artery. Sometimes they occur in organs and cause compression symptoms; skin infiltration causes skin itching and subcutaneous nodules; tonsils and mouth, nose, and pharynx infiltration cause dysphagia, nasal congestion, and nasal keratosis; if they occur in the stomach, small intestine, or large intestine, there may be abdominal distension, abdominal pain, abdominal mass, vomiting, blood in the stool, and other digestive tract symptoms; if lymphomas invade the bone marrow, there may be symptoms such as pale face, fever, abnormal bleeding, and sometimes abnormal lymphocytes can be seen in the peripheral blood. This is also an early symptom of lymphoma.

The above is an introduction to the early symptoms of lymphoma. I hope the above content can be helpful to you. If you have any questions about lymphoma, you can contact our experts and they will give you detailed answers.

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