How to treat advanced lymphoma and what are the symptoms

Lymphoma is a common malignant tumor in recent years, which seriously threatens human life and health. So, if you are unfortunately diagnosed with lymphoma, do you know how to treat it in the late stage? What are the symptoms?

The most common symptom of patients with advanced lymphoma is fever. The fever pattern is often irregular, and can be continuous high fever, or intermittent low fever. A few have periodic fever, which is seen in about 1/6 of Hodgkin's disease patients. Hodgkin's disease accounts for about 30% to 50% of early fever, but non-Hodgkin's lymphoma generally only has fever when the lesions are more extensive. When the fever subsides, the lymphatic system may be characterized by large amounts of blood.

Patients with advanced lymphoma may also experience itching. Systemic itching mostly occurs in cases with lesions in the mediastinum or abdomen. About 17% to 20% of Hodgkin's disease patients experience pain in the lesion 20 minutes after drinking. The symptoms may be earlier than other symptoms and X-ray manifestations, and have certain diagnostic significance. When the lesion is relieved, the alcohol pain disappears immediately, and reappears when it relapses. The mechanism of alcohol pain is unknown.

Generally speaking, lymphoma in the late stage is not suitable for surgical resection, but palliative surgical resection can be considered for patients who meet the surgical indications, such as good physical condition, single or no tumor metastasis, and the tumor is within the range suitable for resection. Before and after surgical treatment, adjuvant treatment such as traditional Chinese medicine and chemotherapy can be used to help complete the treatment and prevent recurrence and metastasis.

Chemotherapy can be used as a common treatment for advanced lymphoma, and it has a good effect in controlling tumors and killing cancer cells. It can also be combined with surgical resection to help enhance the thoroughness of the surgery. Radiotherapy should be selected according to the specific situation of the patient and can be used to control local symptoms. However, since both radiotherapy and chemotherapy have different degrees of side effects, please choose according to the patient's tolerance.