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Depending on the type, lymphoma can be NON life threatening. The above poster is correct. If you or someone you love has this, then search the web and go onto: www.Google.com and ask your question. Print out any good information then sit and study it, making notes that you can shorten into questions later so you can ask your doctor to fill you in. Doctors are very busy in the U.S. and Canada and don't always have the time to sit down with a patient and go over every little thing and this is where the internet is a complete God-send. My doctor's office actually has a notice encouraging his patients to write down any questions they may have. Also many pharmacists are quite qualified to answer some questions other than filling prescriptions.
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∙ 10y agoThe answer is a difficult one because there are so many variables when you look at lymphoma. A time value cannot be assigned unless you have a complete and reliable diagnosis and identification of the specific lymphoma.
- Some forms of lymphoma are aggressive, but respond easily to treatment so that the victim can be considered "cured" and live a long life.
- Some forms are uncurable, but slow growing so you can still live a long life with active cancer.
- If asymptomatic, some lymphomas, by the time they are identified, only give the victim a few months to live.
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∙ 12y agoIt depends on the type of lymphoma cancer. I have follicular lymphoma cancer, (non-agressive) and I am taking chemo therapy and expect the cancer to go into remission. According to the doctors, a person with this form of lymphoma cancer can live for years with it; you never are cured. The thing is you have to get checked constantly after it goes into remission for any return.
There are new and aggressive treatments for this cancer, specially designed to attack to cancerous lymphoma cells. I recommend treatment management by a hemotologist specialist.
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∙ 14y agoWith successful treatment, the average Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Survivor can expect to live around 8 years. This is ofcourse average. Some may be longer, some shorter.
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∙ 13y agoyou know that kenneth dele cruz is live with lymphocytes in one hundred years!
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What distinguishes a sentinel node from other nodes?
A sentinel lymph node is the first lymph node that drains a cancer. If a cancer has not spread to the first draining lymph node near a cancer, there is a high likelihood it has not spread elsewhere.
What is the significance of sentinel lymph node?
A sentinel lymph node is the first lymph node that drains a cancer. If a cancer has not spread to the first draining lymph node near a cancer, there is a high likelihood it has not spread elsewhere.
How is it determined whether a lymph node has cancer cells?
The only method to identify whether or not a lymph node has cancer cells, is to surgically remove the node and perform examination with a microscope to detect abnormal cancer cells.
What are the most common sites for mestastic breast cancer?
Breast cancer most commonly metastasises first to lymph nodes in the axilla of the same side as the affected breast. In more advanced disease, the cancer commonly metastasises to lymph nodes in other regions, to bone, to the liver, and/or to the lungs, and later possibly also to the contralateral breast and to other organs. When there is no evident lymph node metastasis or distant metastasis, the sentinel node may be examined to confirm absence of axillary lymph node metastasis. The lymph nodes in the axilla drain fluid (lymph) from the breast by interconnecting lymph vessels, and the "sentinel node" is the first node to receive lymph from the particular tumour. If there is no tumour in the sentinel node (and no signs of metastasis to other sites), breast cancer has a very good chance of cure after treatment.
A diagnostic procedure in which all of the lymph nodes in a major group are removed to determine the spread of cancer?
A lymph node dissection
Is a diagnostic procedure in which all of the lymph nodes in a major group are removed to determine the spread of cancer?
A lymph node dissection
How long will the lymph node under your arm from a biopsy from breast cancer stay as large as a plum?
If it is not taken out ,it will grow bigger each day.
What can cause a swollen right supra clavicular lymph node?
swallon right supraclavicular lymph node shows something wrong with abdominal organs,there might be cancer of viscers in abdomen.
What are the symptoms of lymphatic cancer?
cancerous lymphnode is not painful but infected lymph node is painful
What is a small node of tissue that filters lymph?
A lymph node.
explain the role of the lymph node in the spread of cancer?
When a person has cancer, sometimes the cancer will metastize to other areas of the body. When cancer has metastizes, the lymph nodes can become involved due to the cancer spreading through the lymphatic fluid.
Is lymph nodes cancer curable?
Most forms are now! This type of cancer is called lymohoma (cancer of the lymph nodes) there are two types. Hodgkins and non-hodgkins. Can be cured by chemo radiation stem cell. Bone marrow transplant. BUT some may not br currable
