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For years after treatment ends you will see your cancer doctor. Research has uncovered some factors that increase a persons risk of getting lymphoma.
Generally a person can have a lymphoma for a long time wthout knowing if it is slow growing and if there are no symptoms.
How long can you have hodgkins lymphoma without knowing. Ultimately I had to go through many tests before we did a scan and identified the growth. How long is hard to know in terms of time and varies based on the type of lymphoma. I have a high grade lymphoma which means it grows fast and was probably around for two or three months before I noticed symptoms.
Generally a person can have a lymphoma for a long time wthout knowing if it is slow growing and if there are no symptoms. At this point that doesnt sound like you. Your husband is right the pain from alcohol should be told to any doctor you see – and most especially you should say that the pain was bad enough to bring tears.
To answer you query I imagine one could walk around with Hodgkins anywhere from the diseases conception in ones bodysay one second until they would drop dead from not ever having known they have the diseasewhich I imagine could be years. How long can Lymphoma go undetected. I dont know what is going on with me but my symptoms seem to me to point to Lymphoma.
It started a year ago with really low fever 100 degrees max that came and went for several weeks chest pain fatigue that made it hard to do anything and a lump that popped up in my groin. As a rule they were 5-10 years and did not know because it takes some time before symptoms appear. Most cases of lymphoma have swollen lymph nodes but not always.
Nodes involved can be found at a site outside without any visible lymph nodes. Or it can lymph nodes the patient is not aware that they have internal nodes that are not tangible. But other cancers can form and grow undetected for 10 years or more as one study found making diagnosis and treatment that much more difficult.
Some people with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma have what are known as B symptoms. Fever which can come and go over several days or weeks without an infection. Weight loss without trying at least 10 of body weight over 6 months Swollen lymph nodes.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma can cause lymph nodes to become enlarged. The treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma is often very successful and many people are cured. Overall more than 91 out of every 100 people 91 will live for at least a year after their diagnosis.
About 85 out of every 100 people 85 will live for at least 5 years. The lump itself did appear over the course of about 5 days. Although the pain associated with it was way before then about 2 months of pain before a lump was palpable.
They say that was the lymph node pressing on a nerve. How Long You Can Expect to Watch and Wait About half of all patients can put off treatment for at least 3 years Abetti says. Some patients can be in watch-and-wait mode for 10 years or more.
If you have a subtype of NHL that grows very slowly you may not need treatment right away. In this case your doctor may watch the lymphoma closely over several months and then start treatment if. For years after treatment ends you will see your cancer doctor.
Be sure to go to all of these follow-up visits. You will have exams blood tests and scans to see if the cancer has come back. At first your visits may be every few months.
Then the longer youre cancer-free the less often the visits are. They base this on the type of lymphoma you have how fast it is growing and how it affects your vital organs brain heart liver kidneys and lungs. Even with all this information though nobody can say for certain how much longer you will live for.
Many people choose to take a day at a time enjoying the time they have left as much as possible. With Hodgkin lymphoma more than half of recurrences occur within two years of the primary treatment and up to 90 occur before the five-year mark. The occurrence of a relapse after 10 years is rare and after 15 years the risk of developing lymphoma is the.
The causes of death and postmortem findings in patients treated for non-Hodgkins lymphoma at a single institution over a 13-year period were reviewed. Postmortem examination 70 of the entire sample revealed evidence of lymphoma in 67 of 80 patients. Non-Hodgkins lymphoma usually affects people older than 40 with a peak incidence around 80 years old.
By contrast Hodgkins lymphoma disease typically affects young people. For unknown reasons the incidence of lymphoma has nearly doubled in the past 35 years. Research has uncovered some factors that increase a persons risk of getting lymphoma.
In the past 10 years this disease has become easier to treat as more procedures are found to be effective. Overall 50 to 60 percent of patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma now live five years or longer without a recurrence. Common warning signs of Hodgkin disease and non-Hodgkin lymphoma include swollen lymph nodes fever night sweats weight loss and fatigue.
Recognizing them early means prompt diagnosis and early.