How long can you live with lymphoma

How long can you live with lymphoma?

Lymphoma is a malignant tumor that originates in lymph nodes or other lymphoid tissues. It is one of the ten most common malignant tumors in my country. Among malignant tumors of the blood system, its incidence rate is second only to leukemia. Everyone from children to the elderly can suffer from lymphoma.

Research has found that the main causes of lymphoma are as follows:

1. Viral infection: It has been proven that lymphoma in some animals is caused by viruses, and it is currently believed that human lymphomatous tissue proliferative diseases are also related to viral infections.

2. Immunodeficiency: Animal experiments have shown that thymectomy or exposure to anti-lymphoid serum, cytotoxic drugs, and radiation can cause the immune function of animals to be in a low state for a long time, resulting in a high incidence of tumors.

3. Other factors: Lymphoma is often accompanied by chromosomal abnormalities. For example, Hodgkin's disease often has triploidy or tetraploidy, and Burkitt's lymphoma and follicular lymphoma often have chromosomal changes such as 14:18. The relationship between drugs and lymphoma has been preliminarily confirmed.

For patients with early-stage lymphoma, how long they can live depends mainly on whether appropriate treatment is taken in time. Generally speaking, the treatment of early-stage lymphoma is mainly radiotherapy, which can be supplemented by traditional Chinese medicine to enhance efficacy and reduce toxicity.